Quotes About Ethics

I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

There are times when a falsehood well told bridges over quite a difficulty, but in the long run, you had better tell the truth, even if you swim the creek.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

You don't swing where you sleep.

As a ballplayer, there is no Christian way to swing a bat. There is no Christian way to swing or throw.

It's all right with me if Roman Polanski is freed by the Swiss authorities who have detained him at the request of the United States - if first I get a chance to bust him one in the mouth.

A.I. should not be weaponized, and any A.I. must have an impregnable 'off switch.'

Unfortunately, making what is essentially a laser sword falls into the deadly category.

Technology is a double-edged sword for sure. You can use it to get in touch with somebody, to get to know somebody, to have really meaningful conversations, or you can use it to hurt and bully people.

I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

As a lifelong Democrat, I never thought I'd lead an effort to defend the symbol of the Republican Party. But when I saw the cruelty that Ringling inflicts on elephants every day across the country, I had to speak up.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

I would certainly not support Trump in any way shape or form, but I want to have sympathy.

Jamal Khashoggi was a Muslim Brotherhood operative, and so I don't really feel sympathy for him.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

Saving animals is as simple as choosing synthetic alternatives instead of real fur.

They make really great synthetic fur - you really don't need real fur. And it's cheaper, so why spend the money?

In 1932, the predecessor organization, the CDC, took 299 black sharecroppers from the South who had syphilis. They offered them free healthcare, hot lunches, and free burial. They said you can only come to us for healthcare. These were men who were sharecroppers, and they had syphilis. They were never told they had syphilis.

No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principles.