Ethical Assessment Quotes

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

… test everything, and retain whatever is good.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but from the bad intentions of men.

Casting judgments is an integral feature of what makes us human.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?