Quotes About Ethics

People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little anthill. You just take one baby step in any direction and you're already there. You've done something awful. And your life is changed forever.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

With great leverage comes great justice.

Back during the war, the sides were a lot clearer. Now that we're fighting other humans again as well, things get muddy real fast. Many soldiers who were fantastic against the Covenant have now balked at battling the Front or any of the other dozens of homegrown terrorist groups across our worlds.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.

The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?' 'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should. There is a power and a beauty in unproved conjectures, unkissed lips and unpicked flowers.

The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. But if it was important enough for David Hume to write that thought down, then maybe it was important enough to aim to do something good. To help preserve life, in all its forms.

A handful of people, working at a handful of technology companies, through their choices will steer what a billion people are thinking today . . . I don't know a more urgent problem than this . . . It's changing our democracy, and it's changing our ability to have the conversations and relationships that we want with each other.' —Tristan Harris, former Google employee

It was one of life's rules – Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff –

Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff

Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.

While knowledge without integrity is dangerous, integrity without knowledge is weak and useless.

They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

You can clone human brains but not what is stored inside them

The American president is a motherfucker.

No. It's about everything. It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?

They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

They can drive a car thirty miles every day and feel good about themselves for recycling a couple of empty jam jars. They can talk about peace being a good thing yet glorify war. They can despise the man who kills his wife in rage but worship the indifferent soldier who drops a bomb killing a hundred children.

Lives are lost in order to save more lives. That is what the society is fighting.

It seems impossible to live without hurting people.' 'That's because it is.' 'So why live at all?' 'Well, in fairness, dying hurts people too.

One day, if you get into a position of power, tell people this: just because you can, it doesn't mean you should.