Quotes About Ethics

Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, the physician father of the Supreme Court justice, was not much overstating when he declared, "I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind—and all the worse for the fishes.

He was saying that mixing church and state corrupted the church. He was saying that when one mixes religion and politics one gets politics.

when faced with desperate patients, doctors often do not have the heart—or, more accurately, they have too much heart—to do nothing.

that fear was "an important element to be bred in the civilian population. It is difficult to unite a people by talking only on the highest ethical plane. To fight for an ideal, perhaps, must be coupled with thoughts of self-preservation.

Over most of the one thousand years of philosophy in ancient Greece and Rome, philosophy was assiduously studied in every generation by many ancient philosophers and their students as the best way to become good people and to live good human lives.

Although driverless cars will displace millions of jobs, they will also save many lives. Today, decisions about implementing technologies are made largely on the basis of profitability and efficiency, but there is an obvious need for a new moral calculus. The devil, however, is in more than the details. As with nuclear weapons and nuclear power, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and robotics will have society-wide consequences, both intended and unintended, in the next decade.

A decade later Brand's Whole Earth Catalog would begin with the premise "We are as gods and might as well get good at it.

At Stanford he read both The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and was seduced by Ayn Rand's romantic view of free-market capitalism as well as her view of businessmen as heroic.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

Image is what people think we are; integrity is whar we really are.

Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?

Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.

While I am a capitalist at heart and I have no problems with commercialization as such, I believe that while it's okay if education becomes a profitable business, it's not okay if it becomes corrupt.

The idea that education can ever be value-neutral is absurd.

Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.

People tell me it's a sin, to know and feel too much within.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.

A man should never be judged by his skill, talent, colour, financial or political status, facial beauty and level of education but by the quality of his character.

Character is the main object of education.

Let the schools teach the nobility of labour and the beauty of human service: but the superstitions of ages past? Never!

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.