Quotes About Ethics

Take the high road, there's a lot less traffic up there.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

The good have no need of an advocate.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing

When I lovingly prepare breakfast for my future children, I'd at least like to know that I served them Monsanto-engineered cornflakes with rBGH-infused milk, diazinon-sprayed strawberries, and irradiated bananas.

Sometimes the bad guys don't win.

Col bastone in mano penso non mi farei più mettere sotto da nessuno. Terrei testa. Questo bastone davvero mi mette allegria. Asseconda la mia vocazione al dispotismo. Quanto mi piace, dire agli altri cosa devono fare. Ci voleva di ammalarsi, per scoprire quanto dare disposizioni sia in fondo più gratificante di una faticosa autosufficienza. Era per moralismo, prima, che m'imponevo di fare tutto da sola. Adesso, malata, posso godermi in segreto un privilegio eticamente sospetto.

There's one problem with California." I wasn't eager to listen, but the sentence had a promising beginning. "It has no understanding of evil.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. / The honest thief, the tender murderer, / The superstitious atheist.

Ma io sono un uomo che preferisce perdere piuttosto che vincere con modi sleali e spietati. Grave colpa da parte mia, lo so! E il bello è che ho la sfacciataggine di difendere tale colpa, di considerarla quasi una virtù…

Lo sapevi, peccare non significa fare il male: non fare il bene, questo significa peccare.

If kindness has falseness at its base, it is no longer kindness. It is labored courtesy.

But a lesser evil is still an evil. Therefore one commits an evil act, and evil, besides staining those who commit it, generates further evil. Hannah Arendt has shown how the principle of the lesser evil, for example, a temporary collaboration with a wicked regime, has ended up allowing atrocities and terror of all kinds. According to her, acceptance of a lesser evil is a dangerous compromise that slides into acceptance of all evil.

Scientists and inventors of the USA (especially in the so-called "blue state" that voted overwhelmingly against Trump) have to think long and hard whether they want to continue research that will help their government remain the world's superpower. All the scientists who worked in and for Germany in the 1930s lived to regret that they directly helped a sociopath like Hitler harm millions of people. Let us not repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious? We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?

I am an atheist, a rationalist and a humanist.

révolution du regard qui s'accomplit dans et par la révolution de l'écriture suppose et suscite à la fois une rupture du lien entre l'éthique et l'esthétique, qui va de pair avec une conversion totale du style de vie. Cette conversion, qui s'accomplit dans l'esthétisme du style de vie

L'esthétisme poussé à sa limite tend vers une sorte de neutralisme moral, qui n'est pas loin d'un nihilisme éthique.

leur éthique personnelle, qui leur inspire la même horreur de toutes les formes de pharisaïsme, conservateur ou progressiste.

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.

When obedience is so impious, Revolt is a necessity.

Just vengeance does not call for punishment.