Ethics Quotes

"Religion is like a knife: you can use it to cut bread, or you can use it to stab somebody in the back." "Happiness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself" "He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives, as far as he can, to repay hatred with love and nobleness" "It is not power that corrupts but fear" "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last." "Truth is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes" "Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist." "You have to be careful, because you don't want your use of attention to become a form of manipulation. " "The last temptation is the greatest treason to do the right deed for the wrong reason" "Each of us has a vision of good and of evil We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight the evil as he conceives them That would be enough to make the world a better place" "What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse" "All cruelty springs from weakness " "Great is truth but still greater from a practical point of view is silence about truth" "For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit." "Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral" "We have multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often." "There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions. And words." "There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined." "The power to do good is also the power to do harm" "Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it"