Anthony Fauci Quotes

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

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

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather to reflect on it, and be more open about the fact that something is an ethical issues and think what we ought to do about it.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

I really do think of it in moral terms. I think that we can't kid ourselves that the storytelling impulse is innocent and does nothing but bring good to the world.

In the Old Testament, it says that if you have the power to do something good, then you have to do it. You're not to avoid helping somebody in their time of need.

We are not going to be able to convince people that our role in the world is a good one unless it is a good one.

Our power will be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. We Americans are not destroyers; we are builders.

Whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its members to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does!

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

Free speech may be a right, but only by using it as a force for good in the world do we make it a virtue.

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

I do feel a responsibility to address things that are problematic, but I don't have to go out of my way to do that.

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

Suppose that I see a hungry child in the street, and I am able to offer the child some food. Am I morally culpable if I refuse to do so? Am I morally culpable if I choose not to do what I easily can about the fact that 1000 children die every hour from easily preventable disease, according to UNICEF? Or the fact that the government of my own "free and open society" is engaged in monstrous crimes that can easily be mitigated or terminated? Is it even possible to debate these questions?