Quotes About Ethics

Richard Feynman said that the differences between true sciences and the pseudo-sciences – a category that includes the management-speak of the business schools – was that the former try to be honest, while the latter do not.

the Messenger of God consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old'.

Don't let someone spend money who never earned it.

Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.

T]he upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease." —NICK BILTON, tech columnist, The New York Times

I can tell he's a good man who doesn't like his job for all the right reasons. He seemed on the verge of constant indigestion. "If

Yet you'd kill me if you could. Why, you have just tried! So why is your killing justified, and mine is not?

Like all hopelessly self-absorbed rock stars he detoured away from moral considerations and believed what he and his fans wanted.

If I've learned anything this trip, it's that you have to take responsibility for what you don't do, as well as what you do.

Character is what you do when no one else is watching.

Do the right thing. It's that simple. Do the right thing when the right thing is not popular. Do the right thing when no one else is around. Do the right thing when temptation tells you otherwise. Do the right thing all the time.

So the "great man" named Rudolph Giuliani made ladies' titties illegal.

Being capable of using violence to defend yourself did not make you a bad person. Being dead because you couldn't did not make you a good one.

Honesty and frankness did not mean the captured bandits were fine folk, or kind, only that they might not murder another in their sleep.

I wondered whether to file flattery under useful teaching technique or craven behavior.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.

Rather than humanizing technology, modern man prefers to technify man.

Modern man defends nothing energetically except his right to debauchery.

The tissues of society become cancerous when the duties of some are transformed into the rights of others.

Every individual with "ideals" is a potential murderer.

An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and that love for humanity is the true religion.

A partisan of equality who is not envious can only be so because he is stupid.

Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science. But he screams when they exterminate him as such.