Quotes About Ethics

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

I feel like no one starts entertainment with an impure intention, but somewhere along the way, lines become blurred and you're no longer sure which way is up and which way is down.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.

I'm a singer, not a politician, and I think you don't want the two to get confused. It's not OK to be on CNN talking about people starving and then tell the interviewer that your new album is coming out in six months.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Judaism doesn't recognize gay marriage, just as we don't recognize milk and meat together as kosher, and nothing will change it... I'm not a hypocrite; I state my positions.

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

What Dred Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or 1,000 slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.

The last thing I want is a conflict of interest between my family's businesses and state government. Even the slightest whiff of a conflict won't fly with me.

In New York, politics is a crime scene from the very beginning. We have the most corrupt state government in the United States.

Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

It's not what my job is about. I'm not out to make a political statement. I want to stand for something, but more by example.

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

It's perfectly reasonable to say that AIs are potentially dangerous. That seems to me like a statement of fact.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.