Ethics Quotes

"Satisfaction linked with dishonor or with harm to others is a prison for the seeker."

"It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don't have data ethicists."

"Even a falsehood takes the place of truth if it brings pure good, free from all fault."

Thiruvalluvar

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants."

Omar Bradley

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."

Jane Addams

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Technology challenges us to assert our human values."

Sherry Turkle

"Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent."

Freeman Dyson

"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors."

Albert Einstein

"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

Jeremy Bentham

"Seven social sins: Politics without principle, Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice."

"Public life must be spiritualized."

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

"When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of."

Confucius

"Good thoughts, good words, good deeds."

"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means."

Immanuel Kant

"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution."

Thomas Edison

"Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics."

Paracelsus

"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."

John Stuart Mill

"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."

"Wealth that comes without harming others and without wrongful means will bring both virtue and happiness."

Thiruvalluvar

"When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honour are things to be ashamed of."

Confucius

"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community."

Aldo Leopold

"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."

Immanuel Kant

"Whatever the law permits, a sense of shame may forbid."

Seneca

"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law."

Immanuel Kant