Quotes about Ethics
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).
— Aristotle
Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care.
— Simon Sinek
It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.
— Marty Rubin
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.
— Harold S. Kushner
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
— Mark Twain
Be good and you will be lonely.
— Mark Twain
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
— Jonathan Edwards
Why should anybody wait to do what is right until everybody does it?
— Wendell Berry
The ability to be good is not the ability to do nothing. It is not negative or passive. It is the ability to do something well--to do good work for good reasons. In order to be good you have to know how--and this knowing is vast, complex, humble and humbling; it is of the mind and of the hands, of neither alone.
— Wendell Berry