Charles Percy Snow Quotes

There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

Knowledge is power, and for each level of knowledge, you are held responsible for how you use it.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.

I think a lot about something: Abe Rosenthal was once asked what he wanted on his headstone, and he said he wanted it just to say, 'He kept the paper straight.' And I think about that a lot.

I refuse to lie to children.

They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Justice is truth in action.

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.