Quotes About Ethics

I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

An intelligence that is not humane is the most dangerous thing in the world .

It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

Moral courage is more a rare commodity than bravery in a battle or great intelligence.

With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

You're born with intelligence, but not with ethics.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

'Savage' describes a cultural condition, not a degree of intelligence.

I don't think the emergence of a superhuman intelligence would be at all catastrophic but much more likely to be beneficial - just as long as we don't start trying to interfere with it!

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

We're a humane country. We got to make sure that we find the intelligence. We have do it [protecting our boundaries] in a humane way following the law.

Intelligence is the only moral guide.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

Among some people arrogance supplies the place of grandeur, inhumanity of decision, and roguery of intelligence.

You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.