Quotes About Ethics

A first impulse was never a crime.

One is often guilty by being too just.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging.

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

Public trust is a vital condition for artificial intelligence to be used productively.

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Meaningful ethics reform is vital to restoring public confidence in Missouri's political system.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved.

I feel like most people know that I'm a vegan, and I'm a pretty vocal animal activist. Everything and anything I do, I just kind of use it as a vehicle to be able to send out the message.

I loathe litterbugs and Im pretty vocal if I see someone do it.

Being a lawyer is not merely a vocation. It is a public trust, and each of us has an obligation to give back to our communities.

I don't like to play anywhere with a banner for Carlsberg or vodka or whatever. I'm not a drinker myself, and I don't like feeling like I'm working for the liquor companies.

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.

Where are reliable journalism and reliable investigative voices going to come from? I love the days of old - the Walter Cronkites, the Dan Rathers.