Ethics Quotes

"Why should I care about posterity? What’s posterity ever done for me?" "It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder" "False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil " "Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues" "It is easier to macrobullshit than to microbullshit" "The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike." "Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected" "Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant." "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights That is the way of a whole human being" "It ain't always about what you like, sometimes it's about what's right" "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one" "Compassion is a verb." "Human dignity shall be inviolable." "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason" "One person of integrity can make a difference" "We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy" "Dark times lie ahead of us, and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right" "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience"