Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Quotes

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

In ethics, there is a humility; moralists are usually righteous.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other hand, arises from societal or group commitments to principia of behavior.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

The ends do not justify the means. The means are the ends.

If the Soviet Government orders me to act against my conscience, I do not obey …. Conscience is above the law. No law which is against the conscience can bind.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

There is a minimum requirement of morality, of moral compass, of decency, of moral empathy. And if you are incapable of meeting that minimum requirement, you can't even talk to me about policy.

I would not allow CIA to undertake activity that is immoral, even if it is technically legal.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

I get frustrated with films that entertain me but ultimately dodge a moral question about how you should try and live.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.