Quotes About Ethics

so humankind in the twenty-first century needs to ask itself an unprecedented question: what are we going to do with ourselves? In a healthy, prosperous and harmonious world, what will demand our attention and ingenuity? This question becomes doubly urgent given the immense new powers that biotechnology and information technology are providing us with. What will we do with all that power?

Many Americans nowadays maintain that their government has a moral imperative to bring Third World countries the benefits of democracy and human rights, even if these goods are delivered by cruise missiles and F-16s. The

Whereas humanism commanded: 'Listen to your feelings!' Dataism now commands: 'Listen to the algorithms! They know how you feel.

Technology is never deterministic, and the fact that something can be done does not mean it must be done.

In the big battle between health and privacy, health is likely to win hands down.

Since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, perhaps the real question facing us is not 'what do we want to be come?' but 'what do we want to want?

Sauf à vous satisfaire de confier l'avenir de la vie aux résultats trimestriels, vous avez besoin d'une idée claire de la vie et de ses enjeux.

La moral no significa «seguir los mandatos divinos». Significa «reducir el sufrimiento».

John Stuart Mill, explained that happiness is nothing but pleasure and freedom from pain, and that beyond pleasure and pain there is no good and no evil. Anyone who tries to deduce good and evil from something else (such as the word of God, or the national interest) is fooling you, and perhaps fooling himself too.

Of all the high-ranking Christian leaders across Nazi-occupied Europe, Bishop Damaskinos of Greece was the only one who publicly stood up to denounce the Nazis' deportation of Jews.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.

Everything we personally own that's made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we're either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

We want customers who need our clothing, not just desire it.

What we take, how and what we make, what we waste, is in fact a question of ethics.

Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity. —

I have a little different definition of evil than most people. When you have the opportunity and the ability to do good and you do nothing, that's evil. Evil doesn't always have to be an overt act, it can be merely the absence of good.

It starts with campaign finance reform.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me; but if I am only for myself, of what value am I?

Happiness is the purpose of humans so it must need to be for the good of others otherwise one's happiness could hurt many others."

The problem isn't not only with what's right and wrong but the problem is with who decides about what's right and wrong.

There is nothing right and wrong until anyone defines it."

What's good for individual could be bad for society but what's good for society that will be good for individual and there is always need to choose what right for society because if it is right for society then it is right for individual."