Allies Quote by Joseph Brodsky

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

— Anonymous

“Ethics is not a description of what people do; it's a prescription for what we all should do.”

— Michael Josephson

An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do

— Bertrand Russell

The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of…

— Daniel Dennett

Ethics is obedience to the unenforceable.

— Baron Moulton John Fletcher Moulton

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from…

— Albert Schweitzer

There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man…

— Anthony Trollope

The ethical person should do more then he is required to do, and less than he is allowed to.

— Michael Josephson

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

— Jane Austen

When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish…

— Confucius

The moral dilemma is to make peace with the unacceptable

— May Sarton

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

— Janet Morris