Quotes about Ethics
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
— Abraham Lincoln
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
— Henry David Thoreau
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
— John Maxwell
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
— Abraham Lincoln
If you can't trust the Bible's history, how can you trust its morality?
— Ken Ham
Integrity is not a given factor in everyone's life. It is a result of self-discipline, inner trust, and a decision to be relentlessly honest in all situations in our lives.
— John Maxwell
Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.
— Joseph Wirthlin
All power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise.
— Benjamin Disraeli