Quotes About Ethics

What we need," he wrote, "is to turn out of colleges young men with ardent convictions on the side of right; not young men who can make a good argument for either right or wrong, as their interest bids them.

Some people really think that great wealth makes crime respectable, and if it is pointed out to a wealthy but dishonest man, that he is merely a common thief, and if in addition, the fact is proved to everybody's satisfaction, his anger is noticeable.

Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

It is important to this people to grapple with the problems connected with the amassing of enormous fortunes, and the use of those fortunes, both corporate and individual, in business.… No amount of charity in spending such fortunes in any way compensates for misconduct in making them.

For all that fair is, is by nature good;That is a sign to know the gentle blood.

When I was young, journalism was all about the five double-yews: Where, When, Why, What, and Who. Today it's about the gees: Garbage and Gossip.

As long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.

Belief In God is primarily a matter of the moral will.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Stubborness is no more than a way of approaching things: it can be used for unworthy aims, but also worthy ones.

Si sus actos fueran irreprochables, los francmasones no evitarían con tanto cuidado la luz...

Es una cuestión de vigas y de columnas. Lo siento. Pero así es como pienso el mundo. Si intento quitar la viga principal se me derrumba el edificio. Y no quiero. Sobre todo porque no quiero lastimar a los que viven en él. A nadie. Este edificio que construí: ¿puede albergar una habitación secreta?

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Honi soit qui mal y pense [Shame on anyone who thinks evil of it].

Everyone should learn a manual trade. It's never too late to become an honest person.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.

Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war.

When life is cheap death is rich.

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

I stand for what I stand on.