Quotes About Ethics

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence?

People always have such a hard time believing that robots could do bad things.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

Purity means lack of hatred, jealousy, fear, greed and lust - the absence of anything that can stain consciousness.

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy, jealousy, avarice or ambition, or even the desire of fame

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.