Billy Graham Quotes

There are lots of things that science will enable us to do that we shouldn’t do.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

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

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

I fear … that morals do not of necessity advance hand in hand with the sciences.

It is the great glory as well as the great threat of science that everything which is in principle possible can be done if the intention to do it is sufficiently resolute.

It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

We cannot blindly pursue the goal of machine intelligence without pondering its consequences.

My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!

Whenever technological advancement is made it can always be used both for good or for bad.

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable.

I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.

They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.

Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race.

We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.