Quotes About Ethics

Do you want to stick needles in the living or scalpels in the dead?

The gospel of miracle that we preach promotes death and encourages corruption.

You once told me some lives are worth more than others. How many deaths before the scales tipout of our favor?"She had no answer.

If a thief and an immoral society finds a thief and an immoral political leader, it will support him to the death!

There was no way I could be confident! But it was obvious that the patient will die if I don't do something!"-Dr. Honma

The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about crime.

I think in some instances that the death penalty is required.

Yes, I support the death penalty. It is an issue that cannot be fudged or hedged.

I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

We have to replace beauty, which is a cultural concept, with goodness, which is a humanist concept.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design but only a few of them

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not.

If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.

You cannot advocate decency and ethics, you must design the conditions that eliminate the problems. In scarcity, people will tend to steal. If you make things available, people tend not to steal.

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.

Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.