Ethics Quotes

"I am a servant of the law Thus I must serve the law" "We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities" "The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best" "Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel" "In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right" "An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere" "Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong" "We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here" "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" "Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights." "I don't like to lie, so when I do, I try to make it more interesting." "No one ever lies when they are in the right." "Secularism teaches us to be good for our own sake." "The more powerful you are, the more your behavior changes the rules." "The best stories don't come from "good versus bad" but "bad versus worse." "Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good." "Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them." "There is no norm that, when violated, does not become the norm of another." "Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself" "We are defined not only by what we create but what we refuse to destroy."