Quotes about Ethics

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.15

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

I sincerely apologize for copying your wife without her knowledge or permission.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

A genuine leader will never exploit your emotions or your pocketbook.

I want to develop discernments that say an unapologetic "no" to ways that violate the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

What is described in Scripture as the basic sin, the sin of taking things into your own hands, being your own god, grabbing what is there while you can get it, is now described as basic wisdom: improve yourself by whatever means you are able; get ahead regardless of the price, take care of me first.