Coins Quote by Richard Whately

A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may…

— Arthur Helps

“The weightless rhetoric of digital technology masks a refusal to acknowledge the people and resources on which these systems depend: lithium and coltan mines,…

— Astra Taylor

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

— L. Ron Hubbard

The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one…

— Ray Kurzweil

“You who won’t allow one per cent of impurity into an alloy of metal,” the unforgotten voice was saying to him, “what have you…

— Ayn Rand

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of…

— Daniel Dennett

“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral law, no…

— Herman Bavinck

I have the strong suspicion that when the brain's greed system is in operation, those parts of the brain that regulate ethical conduct are…

— Semir Zeki

Material bullshit comes and will always go, not anything to be taken by, a trick for the eyes that's only for show. Precious metals…

— Tom Sid

We can be ethical only in relation to something we can see, feel, understand, love, or otherwise have faith in.

— Aldo Leopold

“Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.”

— Simon du Plock

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

— Rollo May