Ethics And Morality Quotes

“Speak with caution. Even if someone forgives harsh words you've spoken, they may be too hurt to ever forget them. Don't leave a legacy of pain and regret of things you never should have said.”
― Germany Kent

“Knowing Tim was a sucker for logical deduction and facts, he would pursue that avenue to entice Tim to step into the realm of blurred ethical lines where right and wrong weren’t as apparent and defined, or didn’t even matter. Dale also knew that if he could convince Tim before he alighted at the subway’s terminus of his argument, Jeremy would assimilate to his ideology somewhere along the journey without any direct effort on his part.”
― Jasun Ether, The Beasts of Success

“Truth and falsehood pass through the same lips without a trace.”
― José Saramago, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

“Let me tell you as a brain scientist and a computer engineering dropout - transhumanism is to brain computer interface, what nuclear weapons are to nuclear physics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans

“When once we engage in secret and guilty practices we are nearer other and greater crimes than we at all suspect.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, In a Glass Darkly

“People get killed in war but to destroy their dignity first is demonic.”
― Robin Blair-Crawford

“Five years earlier when I arrived at Facebook, Mark didn't have a theory of how he and the company should be in the world; he didn't really have developed opinions about policy or politics, beyond "sign up more users." The rest of Facebook's leadership wasn't very different. Mark really couldn't be bothered to care. Now he's developed priorities, and they're mostly pretty horrible and ignorant of the human costs.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“He's in charge of Facebook's global growth. His growth team is the capitalist engine of the whole enterprise. Facebook's business model depends on it conquering new territories. Expanding exponentially.
The growth team is in charge of forging those new frontiers, and like more frontiersmen, Javi and his team play fast and loose. They're aggressive and quick to stake their claim, always looking for opportunities in the gray area created by the lack of regulation.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“There is no 'right side of history', there is only their side, and yours”
― Holden R. Snow, Darker Skies Ahead

“the republican revolution was the greatest utopian movement in American history. The revolutionaries aimed at nothing less than a reconstruction of American society....They sought to reconstruct a society and governments based on virtue and distinterested public leadership and to set in motion a moral movement that would eventually be felt around the globe.”
― Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution

“At the core of the most extreme dangers from AI is the stark fact that there is no particular reason that AI should share our view of ethics and morality.”
― Ethan Mollick, Co-Intelligence: The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.”
― C.S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis' Little Book of Wisdom: Meditations on Faith, Life, Love, and Literature

“Morality is an act of self-correction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“In general, education fails to help people maintain relationships, control their finances, make sound investments and positive life decisions.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“There was then, an American tradition of morality and virtues. "As Americans," wrote former U.S. Congresswoman and Author Clare Luce Booth, "we can proudly say that the traditional moral values of our society have been a reflection, however imperfect, of this universal morality. All of our great men, all of our heroes, have been exemplars of some, if not all, of these virtues.”
― Dee R. Edgeworth, The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America

“There was then, an American tradition of morality and virtues. As Americans, wrote former U.S. Congresswoman and Author Clare Luce Booth, we can proudly say that the traditional moral values of our society have been a reflection, however imperfect, of this universal morality. All of our great men, all of our heroes, have been exemplars of some, if not all, of these virtues.”
― Dee R. Edgeworth, The High Ground: Why Civic Virtue Matters to America

“What can we do to promote a return to traditional values and beliefs? First, we must have private virtue in our personal lives. We cannot change America or the world if we do not live those virtues in our private lives. We can start the transformation in our own homes and communities and in our interactions with others.”
― Dee Edgeworth

“So now we are ready to ask: In what direction can we say that Americans are going? Are we, as a people, going on the high road of universal morality or on the low road of universal immorality? The question is a crucial one for the future of our country. All history bears witness to the fact that there can be no public virtue without private morality. There can be no good government except in a good society. And there cannot be a good society unless the majority of the individuals in it are at least trying to be good people.”
― Clare Luce Booth, Is the New Morality Destroying America

“First things first. If they're going to let us fix the world, you got to make them take us seriously. Get some leverage. If they want to make you into a bad wizard, be a bad wizard. We can write the history books to say you were a good wizard. Or at least an okay wizard. They're not going to listen because we talk nicely, they're going to listen because we scare the shit out of them.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth

“I am the line that I've drawn for myself.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“雖然背下公式便能解出許多問題，但要是一開始就記錯公式，只會不斷答錯⋯⋯請務必教導學生記下正碓的公式。”
― 東野圭吾, A Death in Tokyo

“In relation to the late war, one question that every pacifist had a clear obligation to answer was: ‘What about the Jews? Are you prepared to see them exterminated? If not, how do you propose to save them without resorting to war?’ I must say that I have never heard, from any western pacifist, an honest answer to this question, though I have heard plenty of evasions, usually of the ‘you’re another’ type.”
― George Orwell, Reflections on Gandhi

“If you are not prepared to take life, you must often be prepared for lives to be lost in some other way.”
― George Orwell, Reflections on Gandhi

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"When yous say 'adversary,' who do you mean?" I raise my hand and ask tentatively, a little concerned about what will happen to anyone on one of these lists.

"Anyone who opposes us is an adversary," Mark responds firmly. Not acknowledging that when it comes to Free Basics, that's basically everyone. All I can think is how horrified politicians would be if they knew Facebook was harnessing the platform and its power to put the screws to their thumbs.

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― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“Professionalism is not just about making money.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“A cowardly tyrant only remembers his own greatness in imagination.”
― Duop Chak Wuol

“We do not decide to be nonviolent or truthful in advance as if we had an outline, a moral blueprint to follow automatically. Events appear almost always as a series of little, unexpected problems we must solve one at a time. We choose between two alternatives, one of which, in the final analysis, appears closer than the other to the laws of Jesus Christ. In that moment, one is sure of nothing.”
― André Trocmé, The Memoirs of André Trocmé: The Pastor Who Rescued Jews

“Most of the suffering in the world could be avoided if people choose to do good.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Defiance isn't always dramatic—sometimes it's simply surviving with your integrity intact.”
― Tiffany Higgins, What Happened to the Oranges?: Fifteen Literary Short Stories of Quiet Defiance, Surrealism, and Moral Dilemmas

“As the main work of civilization has been the vindication of the rights of the weak, it is not too much, I think, to insist that the practice of Vivisection, in which this tyranny of strength culminates is a retrograde step in the progress of our race, a backwater in the onward flowing stream of justice and mercy, no less anomalous than it is deplorable and portentous.”
― Frances Power Cobbe, The Moral Aspects of Vivisection