Quotes About Ethics

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.

It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.

...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you

when there is no sound mind in the society people are compromised in their judgement

You cannot run a scociety or cope with it's problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.

Why anarchy? Because anything less would be uncivilized.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.