Quotes About Ethics

When you look at the big issues post-9/11 in the United States, whether it's water boarding, warantless wire tapping, surveillance, Gitmo, black sites rendition, all of those have been legal. Nobody has gone to jail for those programs.

When I was a journalist at Wired, I convinced a doctor to implant an RFID tracking device in my arm.

You know, sometimes I think people in politics are always looking for the next job and the next opportunity. And frankly, that's just not the way I'm wired.

Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously.

I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats.

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?

I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.

I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out of bounds.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.