Quotes About Ethics

Set your mind at rest," he said. "I don't steal from clients, I just overcharge them. It's a lot more lucrative in the long run and you spend less time in prison.

I have done so many things in my life, she said to the mirror. Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

The most tender, the most tragic of illusions is perhaps to believe that our actions can add or subtract from the total quantity of good and evil in the world.

And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior.

A puritan culture's conception of art is something which will endorse its morality and flatter its patriotism.

There are two positions available to us – either crime which renders us happy, or the noose, which prevents us from being unhappy.

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

We're in a world that is run by accountants and I think that it's sad in many ways.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

It's a sad reality if a guy like Charles Koch doesn't qualify as a role model. It's just sad.

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.

Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man to do his bidding.

I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.

Mathematics is less related to accounting than it is to philosophy.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Science is practical philosophy.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.