Ethics Quotes

"Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies" "The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most" "Education is the art of making man ethical." "The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience." "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime" "Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law." "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." "Ingratitude is the essence of vileness." "Every other is completely other" "There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do." "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury." "Cowardice is the most terrible of vices." "The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values." "How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours" "A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent" "AI is going to be the greatest force for good in human history" "Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease" "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" "Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion" "Compassion is no substitute for justice"