Quotes About Ethics

Fairness is a hair colour not something to be balanced on a set of scales.

She has a first-class mind and third-class morals, which is exactly what I need right now

Hire the wrong people and you'll find that you can't beat them hard enough to make them treat customers well. Hire the right people and no beatings are necessary.

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

I mean, I think even God would agree with this at this point. God's existence isn't important. It's what we do with what we've got that counts.

t]he Darwinian argues that morality simply does not work (from a biological perspective), unless we believe that it is objective. Darwinian theory shows that, in fact, morality is a function of (subjective) feelings; but it shows also that we have (and must have) the illusion of objectivity. (Ruse 1998, 253; emphasis mine)

Or really, the question is: Is there a difference between when life begins and when life as a human begins?

The issue that captured the church was the issue of ensoulment and when it occurred during development. A church council decided to call it at conception, instead of the time frame St. Thomas Aquinas had argued in the thirteenth century, which was at around three months of gestation.

It was important for Bob Noyce to be liked, which paralyzed his ability to fire people or reposition them downward, even when the company and those who worked for it were at risk.

A miserable Noyce told a friend, "For a few goddamned points on Wall Street, we have to ruin people's lives.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. —Zeno of Elea (490–430 B.C., Greek philosopher)

A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to require that people leave their deepest moral convictions outside politics before they enter.

Letting rich countries buy their way out of meaningful changes in their own wasteful habits reinforces a bad attitude—that nature is a dumping ground for those who can afford it.

Fines register moral disapproval, whereas fees are simply prices that imply no moral judgment.

What kind of a God makes bodies and forbids you to use them?

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.

You know what we have to do?" The Italian nodded. "I know." "You don't look too happy about it." "Defacing a beautiful building is a crime." "But killing people is not?" Dee asked. "Well, people can always be replaced.

But what you must remember is that knowledge itself is never dangerous," Tsagaglalal insisted. "It is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.

in every war, both sides believe they are in the right.

This is what I have always loved about you humans. You are essentially good." "Not everyone," Machiavelli said tiredly. "No. Not everyone. But enough.

Pero no olvides que la sabiduría nunca es peligrosa. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es el modo en que se usa.

To kill a man is not to defend a doctrine, but to kill a man.