Quotes about Ethics
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
- Edmund Burke
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
- Jonathan Edwards
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
- Karl Rahner
To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have no doubt that the lies Trump told on the campaign trail will come crashing back at him in karmic retribution.
- Marianne Williamson
It's a real pleasure to earn the trust of your customers slowly over time by doing what's right.
- Charlie Munger
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
- John Wesley
The object of the superior man is truth.
- Confucius
Learn what is true in order to do what is right.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.
- Henry David Thoreau