Quotes about Ethics

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Truthfulness is the main element of character.

Guard your integrity as a sacred thing; nothing at last is sacred except the integrity of your own mind.

When you choose the higher value over the lower, the more difficult over the easy, the right over the wrong, you feel good about yourself. Your self-esteem increases. You like and respect yourself more. You have a greater sense of personal pride.

Well, most of the time I do what feels right. But I admit there are times when I give in to my ego. Sometimes the rationalizations are so good that it's easy to sidestep what's right. But eventually you do always realize if you haven't been true to yourself. There's that tiny niggling but persistent voice at the back of your head that is not very easy to ignore for long.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as human rights? How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? What further properties must he show before religious missionaries must consider him worthy of attempts at conversion?

I would rather be a transformed ape than a degenerate son of Adam.