Charles Krauthammer Quotes

It’s clear that cracking the genetic code would be of significantly less benefit if we allow our moral code to become cracked as well.

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.

The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

One cannot but regret the deliberate absence of every transcendental moral reference in governing the so-called developed society.

Markets work; morals matter.

The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.

Like all technologies before it, artificial intelligence will reflect the values of its creators. So inclusivity matters - from who designs it to who sits on the company boards and which ethical perspectives are included.

Science can tell us what can be done in principle, but it is then a matter for public debate as to what should be done. And ultimately, it is a role for politicians to decide the answers.

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

Morality is very important. We have to be together.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

The press is always more comfortable with factual determinations than moral ones, although in day-to-day life, a lot of people care a heck of a lot more about morality than every precise actual fact.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.