Quotes about Ethics

Ritual observance without moral rectitude is worse than empty; it is a counterfeit religious coin with which a worshipper wishes to procure divine and human approval for behavior that deserves censure (see Isa. 58:3—7).

Contrary to the assumptions of Western moral traditions, human beings are (1) not free in their actions but governed by necessity; (2) not transparent to themselves and others in their motivations, but opaque; (3) not similar to each other and therefore subject to the same moral code, but each different.

Everything else follows from this responsibility to those who have come before us. It is the root of flourishing humanity.

To remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it.

the central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good?

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

The Golden Rule means we should do unto others as we would wish them to do unto us if our positions were reversed.

Newspapers of the future, to be conducted successfully, must be divorced from special privilege and relieved from the subsidy of advertising. They must cease to be organs of propaganda for the interests which patronize their advertising columns. The type of newspaper which publishes scandal and lewd pictures will eventually go the way of all forces which debauch the human mind. These

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

Messi would never tell a coach who he has to play or not. I think he not only lacks the power to do that but also is not humanly capable of saying that.