“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
More from Einstein on Ethics
“True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein”
“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act, and in that action are the seeds of new knowledge.”
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
Others on Ethics
Ayn Rand
9 quotes“Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.”
Saint Augustine
8 quotes“If we live good lives the times are also good. As we are such are the times.”
David Hume
7 quotes“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”
Dante
6 quotes“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.”
Thomas Paine
4 quotes“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right a...”
Marcus Aurelius
4 quotes“Will any man despise me? Let him see to it. But I will see to it that I may not be found doing or saying anything that d...”
Pope Benedict XVI
4 quotes“Morality is not man's prison but rather the divine element in him.”
Confucius
3 quotes“Tsze-kung wished to dispense with the sacrifice of a sheep for the New Moon ceremony. The Master said, "You love the she...”
Adam Smith
3 quotes“In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.”
Percy Shelley
3 quotes“All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.”
Philip K. Dick
3 quotes“If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what yo...”
Immanuel Kant
3 quotes“...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.”