Max Landis Quotes

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.

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.

There can be no fundamental distinction between what is morally right and what is politically right.

What is the purpose of our might if we do not use it for good.

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!

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

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

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

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. . . .

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.

Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.

The Time Lords really didn't like genocide. I'm not too keen on it myself. It's the potential you're killing off. What if, one day, there was a good Dalek? What if...

I try to do the right thing.

Liberty must not be abused.

Thousands of years ago the question was asked: "Am I my brother's keeper?" That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

Ethics is inescapable.

Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.

I never killed anyone because it wasn't necessary. I could have killed.

If there is no God or no evidence of God and certainly no evidence of a very morally engaged god, then whatever has to be done has to be done by us.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.