Quotes About Ethics

We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

La clase de filosofía que se elige depende de la clase de hombre que se es.

seeing this as a debate between whether you are pro-tech or anti-tech is bogus and lets the people who stole your attention off the hook. The real debate is: What tech, designed for what purposes, in whose interests?

His eyes flashing, Leary13 evangelized on a cascade of TV shows that he was the founder of a new religion, with cannabis and LSD as its sacraments. These drugs should, he said, be given to twelve-year-olds so they can "fuck righteously14 and without guilt"—and to prove the point he gave them to his own young teenage15 children, even as they went slowly insane.16

Jarod Lanier - a veteran Silicon Valley engineer - told me he used to be a consultant for loads of dystopian Hollywood movies, like Minority Report, but he had to stop because he kept designing ever-more frightening technologies to warn people of what was coming - and designers kept responding by saying that's so cool; how do we make that?

whenever something is provided by a tech company for free, it's always to improve the voodoo doll. Why is Google Maps free? So the voodoo doll can include the details of where you go every day. Why are Amazon Echo and Google Nest Hubs sold for as cheap as $30 (£22), far less than they cost to make? So they can gather more info; so the voodoo doll can consist not just of what you search for on a screen but what you say in your home.

Joel Nigg] believes you can only ethically give out drugs if you are also at the same time trying to solve the deeper problem.

White boasted. "Where else [but in the Bureau of Narcotics] could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage219

One day, James Williams—the former Google strategist I met—addressed an audience of hundreds of leading tech designers and asked them a simple question: "How many of you want to live in the world you are designing?" There was a silence in the room. People looked around them. Nobody put up their hand.

one of my biggest learnings as a designer or technologist is—making something easy to use doesn't mean it's good for humanity.

Nearly half of all zoos in the U.S. now admit to giving psychiatric drugs to their animals,

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it'

He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same colour.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.