Quotes About Ethics

Wreath told me what the Passage is." "Oh?" "They're going to kill three billion people to stop the other three billion from ever dying.

How stupid am I, huh? Boom, just like that, I'm cut off and now I can see the whole thing. You've never done anything for anyone else. You've never inconvenienced yourself purely for someone else's benefit. The rest of us have. It's what makes us good people. You? You've saved the world, but you're not a good person.

Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul." Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1941)

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.

Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.

It is important to use all knowledge ethically, humanely, and lovingly.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge.