Ethics Quotes

"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge." "Men should be what they seem." "The devil can cite scripture for his purpose." "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions" "The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason" "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."