Quotes About Ethics

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Be just before you are generous.

We all want our genetic information. Why would you not want genetic information?

Homosexuality is a genetic flaw.

We literally hand over our most private data, our DNA, but we're not just consenting for ourselves, we are consenting for our children, and our children's children. Maybe we don't live in a world where people are genetically discriminated against now, but who's to say in 100 years that we won't?

I imagine if you're one of those genius people working on AI, the desire to find out what's possible is presumably the driving factor, but I hope there are just as many people who are thinking about what we actually want. Just because something's possible it doesn't mean it's going to be good to us.

I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight.

Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Every fighter has a duty to boxing to not bring themselves or the sport into disrepute by foul language or behaviour so that boxing can be seen as a gentleman's sport.

I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman's sport.

What I desire most in my life is to become a better person. I genuinely want to be good.

When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing.

I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.

There is a word in German, called gerechterweise, which means fairness. I need to be fair, it's just the part of my personality.

We didn't need the Internet for Nazi Germany to happen. But I feel like there's this lack of humanity because of it.

When 'Ghost in the Shell' was first made, it was so prescient. It was sci-fi.

Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don't think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat.

I do think that being a sort of celebrity and being well off does give me some responsibility. I think that people who make a lot of money - and I do - should certainly give a considerable amount of it away.