George Konrad Quotes

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be firm rules that could always be relied on. Or they might be ideals that could often be followed without thinking but that sometimes conflicted with one another.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

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

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

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

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.

Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.

Leadership is all about right and wrong.

We need an approach to ethics which makes no recourse to religion and can be equally acceptable to those with faith and those without.

We must make a decision of values.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.