Quotes On: Ethics

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.