ethics Quotes

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.