Quotes About Ethics

bien. Es tan poderoso como la virtud y en muchos casos

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

Were Cicero alive in the America of today he would be aghast and appalled. He would find it so familiar.

Los ciudadanos corrompidos incuban gobernantes corruptos, y es la multitud la que, a fin de cuentas, decide cuándo ha de morir la virtud».

Never permit him to say to you, "I am needed by my country more than any other man, therefore, you must not dismiss me." You have corrupted him and he should be removed and avoided, and left to rediscover his soul in silence or—in exile.

Then," said Joseph, "you also know, as the Renaissance Italians knew that politics and moral ethics never mix. Politics and ethics are a contradiction in terms. An honest politician is either a hypocrite—or he is doomed.

Contra el poder del dinero y la corrupción no podrá hacerse nada.

Es una equivocación educar a los niños tan sólo en el ambiente familiar, rodeados de cariño afectuoso, sin hacerles saber que al otro lado de los seguros muros de su hogar hay un mundo de hombres impíos, deshonestos y amorales, y que tales hombres constituyen la mayoría.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Asking people who sell financial products for financial advice creates a potential conflict of interest.

I could get drunk and run around Nashville naked. But I won't because I want to set a good example for my fans. I think they deserve to have a role model.

Sophistication isn't what you wear, or who you know, Or pushing people down to get you where you wanna go.

Every decision you make contributes to your character and shapes the kind of person you are.

Their righteousness could not save them from the consequences of their deeds.

Science fiction is about using speculative scenarios as a lens to examine the human condition.

Men as righteous as we could not be judged harshly.

If those scientists could come up with some way to turn off the jerk circuit in guys' brains, I'd be all in favor of that.

what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of humans?

I'm reminded of the Confucian concept of ren: inadequately conveyed by "benevolence," that quality which is quintessentially human, which can only be cultivated through interaction with others, and which a solitary person cannot manifest.

I view the world as incidental to my aims, while he cannot allow someone with enhanced intelligence to work purely in self-interest.

No one relishes the prospect of humans being conceived artificially. But can you offer an alternative?

A child born of this method would have no biological father." "True, but the father's biological contribution is of minimal importance here. The mother will think of her husband as the child's father, so her imagination will impart a combination of her own and her husband's appearance and character to the foetus. That will not change. And I hardly need mention that name impression would not be made available to unmarried women.

The original Drayta's owner trained him using a puzzle generator pirated from the Five Dynasties continent on the Real Space platform and then released copies to the public domain.

Technology is being used to manipulate us through our emotional reactions, so it's only fair that we use it to protect ourselves too.