Quotes About Ethics

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

En su libro Estrategia moderna (Modern Strategy) apuntó diecisiete factores a tener en cuenta: la gente, la sociedad, la cultura, la política, la ética, la economía y la logística, la organización, la administración, la información y la inteligencia, la teoría estratégica y la doctrina, la tecnología, la operatividad, el mando, la geografía, la fricción / el azar / la incertidumbre, el adversario y el tiempo.

Todas las acciones están sujetas a órdenes», «Nunca hay que robar al pueblo», «Jamás seas egoísta o injusto»;

Cierra la puerta cuando salgas de la casa», «Enrolla la esterilla en la que has dormido», «Sé educado», «Sé honrado en tus transacciones», «Devuelve lo que pidas prestado», «Repón lo que rompas», «No te bañes en presencia de mujeres», «No rebusques sin autorización en los bolsillos de tus detenidos».

Sometimes a deal with the devil is better than no deal at all.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

you choose to believe what you want, and you choose to do what you do. First comes life, then comes law. You are still responsible. You cannot hide behind anything. Since when does religious tradition permit you to short-circuit any morally uncomfortable decision?

They can sell at that price—and go broke and you can, too! If you base your price on your competitor's price—and they are going broke—you will, too. Typically, someone among your competition is going broke and usually is cutting prices on the way out. Owen Young, who is credited with having built General Electric, once said, "It's not the crook we fear in modern business; rather it's the honest guy who doesn't know what he is doing.

unfair—whether you live or die bears no relationship to what kind of person

In speaking of a constitution in cyberspace we are simply asking: What values should be protected there? What values should be built into the space to encourage what forms of life?

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

In the 1970s, 3 percent of retiring members became lobbyists. Thirty years later, that number has increased by an order of magnitude. Between 1998 and 2004, more than 50 percent of senators and 42 percent of House members made that career transition.

The obvious point of Conrad's cartoon is the weirdness of a world where guns are legal, despite the harm they can do, while VCRs (and circumvention technologies) are illegal. Flash: No one ever died from copyright circumvention. Yet the law bans circumvention technologies absolutely, despite the potential that they might do some good, but permits guns, despite the obvious and tragic harm they do.

the need for gun control laws and a new moral climate.

Evils that befall the world are not nearly so often caused by bad men as they are by good men who are silent when an opinion must be voiced.

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Religion is always an irrational enterprise, no matter how ennobling it may be to the human spirit.

Those laboratory animals have done us no harm. They are tortured and murdered in the name of science. I know, I used to do it myself to my great shame. Is the benefit to humanity worth the sacrifice of so many animal lives? I say, No.

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.

What is more arrogant than honesty?

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.