Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Software options proliferate extremely easily – too easily, in fact – because too many options create tools that can’t ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one’s mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

We moralize among ruins.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

It is right to give every man his due.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

We all have the duty to do good.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.