The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this natural world and advocating the methods of reason, science, and democracy.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past.