Quotes about Ethics
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
- Dante Alighieri
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
- Philip Yancey
When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.
- Pope Benedict XVI
How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.
- Martin Luther
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it
- Lyman Beecher
We can't allow science to undo its own good work.
- Aldous Huxley
We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.
- Martin Luther
I have watched constantly that in our work the highest moral and spiritual standards are upheld, whether my productions deal with fable or with stories of living action.
- Walt Disney
In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.
- Miroslav Volf
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.
- JRR Tolkien
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
- Dag Hammarskjold