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Ethics Quotes

"The greatest proof of moral cowardice is the fear of appearance of moral cowardice"

"People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel."

"Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?"

"Don't lie to your kids. Even if the truth is inconvenient, never lie."

"All men profess honesty as long as they can"

"The object of the superior man is truth."

"In a world in which everything is interconnected, the supreme moral imperative becomes the imperative to know"

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues"

"There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse"

"Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong"

"The measure of a man is what he does with power."

"Religion is like a knife: you can use it to cut bread, or you can use it to stab somebody in the back."

"Primum non nocere (First, do no harm)."

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"

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