Professor Sheila McLean
“I feel I have to speak on behalf of the weak and the vulnerable. If you are lucky enough to have a public platform, as I did, you have an obligation to speak for people who cannot defend themselves.”
Chikwan Nam
“Society is people. If you live in this country that is everybody, not just your own little social circle. You need to understand how everyone else works in order to live your life as an adult. How are you going to understand how everything else works if you’re not exposed to everything else?”
Dr Hema Radhakrishnan
“For me, human rights are about more than granting asylum. It is about treating people well, including people who are here. Making sure everyone has enough food is more important than the kind of prison this man would go to in Greece. “
Professor Steven Jones
“The separation of the judiciary from the political system in important. The judiciary is drawn from a narrow part of British society and is more conservative than the population as a whole, but I think that that is true in most counties. It is better than it was. “
Dr Hilary Firestone
“It is a very good way of life and it introduces principles of discipline. You can’t always have what you want when you want it. It is a good lifestyle to live by, it give you rules. It’s ethical, moral and it suits me.”
Ioannis Stylianou
“I am not saying that the principle of equality comes entirely from Christianity, but at least Christianity does not say that we have more value as Christians than other faith believers… Equality is one of the main principles of Christianity.”
Professor Sir John Sulston
“It is important to have rules, to reinforce and codify the ethical sense that all of us share. But my experience of acting as a manager has shown me that it is impossible to have perfect collective decision-making and there will always be conflict within this. “
Dr Adrian Crisp MD
“I do have a strong belief that ethical standards should underpin all application of power so there need to be mechanisms to ensure that political and economic power is subject to internal ethical review, to make sure that people always behave for the good of society.”
Professor Lord Robert Winston
“If you don’t act within the law even if you don’t agree with it, you run the risk of having anarchy. It’s as simple as that, and if you don’t agree with the law then you have every right to try and change it and in a free society you can demonstrate against it. “
Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
“If you belong to a supranational body, such as the European Union, there must be a bit of give and take. You gain a lot of it, but it probably also means that there are times in which we don’t get our ways. We have to do what the rest of Europe has decided it is ok. “
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell
“I don’t think religion has complete ownership of moral positions. I think most people, religious or not, have strong moral views.”
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