Quotes about Ethics
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
- CS Lewis
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
- John Owen
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
- Thomas Jefferson
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
- Martin Luther
Whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits, and I have therefore many agnostic friends.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Force always attracts men of low morality.
- Albert Einstein
A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
- Confucius
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.
- Andrew Johnson
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
- Ulysses S. Grant
No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.
- Herbert Hoover