Quotes about Ethics

Live with men as if God saw you converse with God as if men heard you.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

What does reason demand of a man A very easy thing: to live in accord with his nature.

Charity is merely returning what we have stolen.

The world of efficiency and anonymity dehumanises us. We have to ask who the invisible people are. Who makes our clothes? Who picks our vegetables? And how are they treated?

My concern is, How do we deal with evil without becoming it? If we aren't careful, our "justice" can be as bad as the crime itself. Yet

The death penalty did not flourish in America in spite of Christians but because of us. So

There are two ways to submit to authority, then. One is by obeying the good laws; the other is by openly suffering the consequences of disobeying the bad laws—that is

I must say I am still passionately pro-life, I just have a much more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers. I like to say that I am pro-life from the "womb to the tomb

It may very well be that there's a villain and a hero inside each of us, and each day we have a choice of who we want to be.

It is written in the Didache, "There are two ways, one of life and one of death, but a great difference between the two ways. The way of life, then, is this: first, you shall love God who made you; second, love your neighbor as yourself, and do not do to another what you would not want done to you.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.