Bertrand Russell Quotes

I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.

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

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

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

I've always been very liberal when it comes to people thinking for themselves.

Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems.

The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.

I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

I cannot rely upon public opinion polls to tell me what is right.

I have an old-fashioned belief that Americans like to make up their own minds on the basis of all available information.

Each of you, as an individual, must pick your own goals. Listen to others, but do not become a blind follower.

I grew up feeling from a very young age that what was right was right, no matter if God or my teacher said so.

Rebellion is not always the right thing. Following the rules is not always the right thing. You have to think for yourself and identify the things that do not work for you.

You need to weigh things up properly in life and ask yourself if it is your call to make, or one to satisfy others.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

There’s no such thing as 'one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

To be a fully functioning moral agent, one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by fiat. Moral principles require moral reasoning.

In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything.

A moral choice in its basic terms appears to be a choice that favors survival: a choice made in favor of life.

"What is my highest sense of right?" we can ask at any decision point in our lives and not worry about if this is going to lose us a lot of money or is this going to make us a lot of money or whatever.