Albert Camus Quotes

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

The ends do not justify the means. The means are the ends.

There is no right in acting.

It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to say that you think are right and you think could make the world a better place, it's important that many people read about them.

Ethics is inescapable.

At the end of the day, if there are truly ethical considerations, those have to override scientific considerations.

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

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

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.

If the end does not justify the means, what does?

Ethical and legal are not synonyms. ;

The ends do not always justify the means

Opinions upon moral questions are more often the expression of strongly felt expediency than of careful ethical reasoning

One's concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one's personal interest in the issue ... Any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

I do like crossing moral boundaries.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

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

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.