Quotes About Morality

Watson. He is our better self.

Nihilism and narcissism are not traits that any leading-edge can actually operate with.

And so now, today, one cannot think of the greats—Kant, Hegel, Spinoza, Marx, Fichte, Freud, Nietzsche, Einstein, Schopenhauer, Leibniz, Schelling—the whole Germanic sphere—without thinking, at some point, of Auschwitz and Treblinka, Sobibor and Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Chelmno. My God, they have names, as if they were human.

dozen multiple intelligences—cognitive intelligence, emotional intelligence, moral intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, kinesthetic intelligence, logico-mathematical intelligence, spiritual intelligence, aesthetic intelligence, and so on.

I had my own test, better than Turing's: when a computer could genuinely convince me that it wanted to commit suicide.

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

Doing the right thing has power.

Be good. Do good. The devil wields no power over a good man.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

If you ask the government to impose morality, then moral questions will be decided by whoever has the most political power.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.

Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.