Quotes about Ethics
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
If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so.
- GK Chesterton
Someone must stand up to those who say, "Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want."
- Ronald Reagan
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
- Samuel Johnson
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
- AW Tozer
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
- George Bernard Shaw
If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.
- Maya Angelou
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
- Livy
Slander is worse than cannibalism.
- St. John Chrysostom
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
- George Washington
It's very important for people to know themselves and understand what their value system is, because if you don't know what your value system is, then you don't know what risks are worth taking and which ones are worth avoiding.
- Ben Carson