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Ethics Quotes

"We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them."

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction"

"In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates - and isolation brings its own reward"

"Virtue alone has majesty in death"

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

"The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done"

"The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules."

"Prisons are built with stones of Law, brothels with bricks of Religion "

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"

"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law"

"Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense"

"What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse"

"Evil cannot be hidden that you seek to reveal"

"No one ever lies when they are in the right."

"Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right."

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