Quotes about Ethics
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
Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.
— George Washington