ethics Quotes

What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

A free press needs to be a respected press.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

People can't get their heads round the idea of a species surviving; you know, they're more concerned about how you treat a donkey in Sicily or something.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?