Quotes about Ethics
Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
— GK Chesterton
Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.
— GK Chesterton
But if someone's character has no foundation, there's nothing to build on.
— Gary Thomas
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
— Brigham Young
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
— Bruce Lee
and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.
— Herman Melville
if he is going to live for ever, what good will it do to pitch him overboard—tell me that?" "Give him a good ducking, anyhow.
— Herman Melville
That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp
— Herman Melville
What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? What does that indignity amount to, weighed, I mean, in the scales of the New Testament?
— Herman Melville
Go to the meat-market of a Saturday night and see the crowds of live bipeds staring up at the long rows of dead quadrupeds. Does not that sight take a tooth out of the cannibal's jaw? Cannibals? who is not a cannibal?
— Herman Melville
My lord, it is easier for some men to be saints, than for others not to be sinners.
— Herman Melville