Philosophy Today June 2014 | Page 15

QUOTATIONS

"In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so."

– Immanuel Kant

"Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself." - Bertrand Russell

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

– Potter Stewart

"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."

– Albert Camus

"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."

- D. H. Lawrence

"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."

- Albert Schweitzer

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."

- Jane Addams