Quotes about Ethics
It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
— CS Lewis
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
— Sonny Bono
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
— George Eliot
I'm a good woman for a bad man.
— Mae West
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
— Albert Schweitzer
A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.
— Brigham Young
Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.
— James Freeman Clarke
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
— Edmund Burke
You cannot make men good by law.
— CS Lewis
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
— Epicurus
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
— St. Francis Of Assisi