Sherry Turkle Quotes

The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us to figure out what they really are.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

The government may be made up of clever, sensible people. But if they do not believe in basic human values, the more clever or shrewd they are the greater the tragedy they will create.

Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

Our moral traditions developed concurrently with our reason, not as its product.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

I don't believe in dogmas and theologies. I just believe in being a good person.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

There can be no fundamental distinction between what is morally right and what is politically right.

This country will never sacrifice humanity in order to carry out any policy.

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

Ethics is a fluid term ...It's the standards by which a civilized society lives.

Markets work; morals matter.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

Education must establish the moral unity of mankind.

In some countries the effort to debate and legislate the social and ethical implications of the new biological and genetic technologies often precedes their application. This observation confirms the realization by the public that biotechnological applications will interfere with all the basic and profound value systems considered by every human being

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.

Civilization depends on morality.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.