Quotes About Ethics

In philosophy, they talk a lot about humans being actual organic machines, and the idea of free will is something that we've made up. We actually don't have free will. We're acting according to our programming as organic mechanisms.

Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with the capacity to feel, both physically and emotionally. Every day, I have the choice to live a life of compassion that not only saves animals but helps the environment.

While I am willing to compromise on process or on programs, I will not compromise my principles, nor would I expect those I work with to do so.

Like so many large companies in the U.S., Monsanto has prospered in large part due to U.S. taxpayer-funded programs and services.

It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Not taking corporate money is a core part of the progressive message.

Can you be a progressive if you're anti-immigrant but pro-choice? No!

As members of the military, Coast Guardsmen are prohibited from wading into politics.

Legislating morality doesn't work (see: Prohibition). It produced the Mafia.

As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused.

When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.

If City Hall started projecting swastikas, no one would say 'You know what? Free speech.' People would say that is wrong.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.

Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.

The danger in promiscuity is that it's always barking at your heels.

I don't want to be promiscuous.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.

We have realized that corruption is rife, and we are going to address it. We are going to root out corruption, and that is a promise I can make.

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

I mean, look, Nancy Pelosi said in the very beginning this is going to be the most open, honest and ethical Congress in history. And what we're seeing is she's breaking that promise every day.

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.