Quotes about Ethics
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.
- Epicurus
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
- Theodore Roosevelt
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Confucius
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Compassion without wisdom is dangerous. It's what enables people to support the 'underdog,' even if the underdog is evil
- Dennis Prager
Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.
- CS Lewis
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Conscience is God present in man.
- Victor Hugo
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
- Thomas Jefferson
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.