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Ethics Quotes

"Intellectuals may like to imagine themselves as people who speak truth to power, but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power"

"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision"

"Your own conscience is the only thing you've got to answer to"

"The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most"

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something "

"The path of integrity is always the right path, even if it is the difficult one."

"The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud."

"There are no rights. There are only privileges."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"

"I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the lips, but also the failure to tell the whole truth, thus entailing deception"

"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it"

"What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?"

"The more sin, the more justification."

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

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