Quotes About Ethics

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided.

Who knows more about the usage of personal data than Cambridge Analytica?

New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It's all about how people choose to use it.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

AI is neither good nor evil. It's a tool. It's a technology for us to use.

Personally, I would never use sexuality or looks as a selling point.

I like technology, but 'Black Mirror' is more what the consequences are, and it doesn't tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We've not really thought through the consequences of it.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.

The most important thing about power is to make sure you don't have to use it.

A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.

You can't do a good deal with bad people, and you can't do a bad deal with good people. I often use that as my compass.

I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

If I give you the right conditions to work, and I put you in a beautiful place, where you feel a little bit better about yourself because you know your work is being used for something greater than producing a profit, maybe you will get more creative; maybe you will want to work more.

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.