ethics Quotes

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The law is reason, free from passion.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.