Quotes About Ethics

After the Cold War, most scientists were relieved to be freed of the burdens of secrecy and misrepresentation, but Seitz, Singer, and Nierenberg continued to act as if the Cold War had not ended.

the philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124

when the consequences of our scientific conclusions are non-epistemic—i.e., when they are moral, ethical, political, or economic—it is almost inevitable that our values will creep into our judgments of evidence.

Russell Seitz and the defenders of tobacco invoked liberty, too. But as the philosopher Isaiah Berlin sagely pointed out, liberty for wolves means death to lambs.124 Our society has always understood that freedoms

Rabbi Yohonan said in the name of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai that to wound with words is much worse than to cheat in business, because you can give back the money you steal but you can never restore the pride of the person you hurt.

I don't think you're supposed to speak ill of the dead." "When the dead are spineless bastards who don't take care of their own children, I'll say whatever the fuck I want.

Good and evil." I chuckle under my breath. "Such binary thinking. So simplistic. So boring. Everything is shades of gray, Emery. There is no such thing as good people or evil people. There are simply people. And some of us are willing to do whatever it takes to get what we want. I don't think you're one of them. Do you understand what I'm telling you?

I hope we have not sunk so low in American society that plain, simple, justice according to the Constitution must be regarded as a perk. Police

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

My conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct.

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

The moral is to the physical as three is to one

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.