Quotes About Ethics

If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that Cisco may have helped the cops keep me under surveillance and catch me trying to organize protest activities.

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.

I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

In this the age of concern over privacy invasion and surveillance and manipulation, people will start to realize that there is no way to avoid being manipulated by other people, governments, marketers, and the like.

It's killing for fun or profit I can't stand. There's a difference between an Eskimo killing a seal for survival and some dumb broad strolling down Fifth Avenue in a leopard coat.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.

What today's business reality makes clear is that brands cannot survive in a society that is failing economically, socially, ethically, and morally.

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

I have removed the spleen from a dog, from cats, and rabbits. In all cases, the animals survived the operation and did not appear to be in the least affected by the absence of the organ.

If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

In Survivor and Finder's Fee, it is about what you would do if you could get away with it. Survivor is about your own integrity and where you draw your own ethical and moral lines. There are no rules.

They're the last human beings susceptible to human shame. Politicians are the only people left for whom, occasionally, shame hurts them. Everyone else, we've sort of done away with it as a concept, and we're hurtling through space like animals, basically.

Everything is susceptible to corruption of one sort or another - humanity is one big cheat - but it matters particularly with sport, which ceases to be itself the minute the outcome's rigged.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

I admitted I bet on baseball, but I wasn't suspended from baseball for betting on baseball.

All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.

In my career I haven't been suspended much.

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.