Thomas Huxley Quotes

There is no right in acting.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

I try not to do anything that's immoral.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

The ends do not always justify the means

To see the line between being good and bad is really thin. It's not easy for anyone, not the manager, the players or the staff.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

I'm not a moral relativist, I do think at the end of the day there's right and wrong, there's good intentions, and then there's bad paths that you can go on even if you have good intentions and we believe that.

I'm not saying you did the wrong thing. I'm not even saying it wasn't something I'd thought of doing, myself. But even if it was the just thing to do, or the fitting thing, it still wasn't the right thing.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Modern morality is all about perception.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.