Quotes about Ethics
Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- George Washington
Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is the best policy.
- George Washington
Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
- George Washington
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
- George Washington
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
- George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
- George Washington
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world".
- George Weigel
Homo voluntatis cannot explain why some things that can be done should not be done.
- George Weigel
If moral relativism was legally absolutized in the name of tolerance, basic rights were also relativized and the door was open to totalitarianism.
- George Weigel