ethics quotes

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

- SirAlfred Jules Ayer
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.6.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drewa system of ethics, compounded of misanthropyand voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.

-1st Baron
  Of the young Byron enthusiasts who emulated and hero- worshipped him.'Moore's Life of Lord Byron', in the Edinburgh Review,  Jun.

If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics† But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness† Man, then, can not be happy through science buttoday he canmuch less be happy without it.

- (Jules) Henri Poincare 
  TheValue of Science.

The problem is not style but quality, not aesthetics but ethics.

- Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers
  22nd annualWalter Neurath lecture. Collected in Architecture: a ModernView.

Ethics are no more a part of poetry than theyare of painting.

-Wallace Stevens
  Opus Posthumous, Aphorisms,'Adagia'.