Quotes about Ethics
As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?
— Denzel Washington
So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular and infinitely boring
— Soren Kierkegaard
One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.
— Mother Teresa
I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.
— Desmond Tutu
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
— Abraham Lincoln
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
— St. Jerome
Gradually, the unthinkable becomes tolerable, then acceptable, then legal, then praised.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
— Joseph Addison
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.
— Joseph Addison
There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
— Joseph Addison