ethics Quotes

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.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.