Pope John Paul II Quotes

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

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

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

You can't legislate 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.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.

I think ethics is always there; it's not always a very thoughtful or reflective ethics.

Conventionality is not morality.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

The money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths. The measure of the restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social values more noble than mere monetary profit.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

I suppose that an honest man shines more in politics than he does elsewhere.

If we leave our values at the door, we give up some of the moral glue that has held our country together