Quotes About Ethics

A seventeenth-century English politician once famously said, 'a diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you.

Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you. Wortzman

For the greater good?" screamed Ashley through her tears,

because if she were no longer truly human, how could she judge his humanity?

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." —J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb upon seeing the first test detonation (quoting from Hindu scripture)

We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." —Aesop "Any

Brilliant minds around the world are working to enhance the addictive properties of numerous products.

You know that's not the entire quote," said Knight. "It's, 'Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, and you're a god.

Allie returned to MIT to finish her doctorate, only to discover that her advisor, Abraham Sena, whom she had admired, had stolen her thesis while she was gone, publishing it as if it were his own work.

kill one man and you're considered a murderer. Wipe out all life on an entire planet, with the exception of the occupants of a wooden ark, and you're considered a god. Still,

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world. —Albert Camus

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror.

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, and you're a god.

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'" Altschuler

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014) by Nick Bostrom, a Professor at Oxford.

Computers were once bigger than houses. When this was the case, abuse was virtually nonexistent. A current example is the large hadron collider. We certainly don't have to worry about one of these being misused, simply because there is only one of these.

Then we don't deserve to be preserved,

PART 8 "Battle not with monsters, Lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze into the abyss, The abyss gazes back into you." —Friedrich Nietzsche,

A man asks a woman if she would sleep with him for ten million dollars. She agrees. He then asks if she would sleep with him for a dollar. She is aghast. "What kind of woman do you take me for?" she asks. To that, the man responds, "We have established what you are, madam. Now we're just haggling over the price.

Those without a conscience, without a soul, had a huge advantage over those burdened by ethics, self-doubt, and decency, as they were capable of epic displays of betrayal and duplicity, without fear, guilt, or remorse ever entering the picture.

I carry out orders given by the first being who activates me," responded the AI, its directed thoughts now coming at her more quickly, displaying the urgency she had called for. "Provided I deem the being worthy, well-intentioned. A being who ultimately wants to use the power of the cube for constructive, rather than destructive, purposes.

After all, kill one man and you're considered a murderer. Wipe out all life on an entire planet, with the exception of the occupants of a wooden ark, and you're considered a god.