Quotes about Ethics
Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.
— Os Guinness
Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right
— Max De Pree
We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve.
— Jacques Maritain
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.
— Roger Williams
Trust grows when people see leaders translate their personal integrity into organizational fidelity. At the heart of fidelity lies truth-telling and promise-keeping.
— Max De Pree
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
— Mark Twain
When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.
— Craig Groeschel
Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.
— Randy Alcorn
Always tell the truth, and take an interest in serving the people around you as much as possible.
— Jimmy Carter
When morality comes up against profit, it's seldom profit that loses.
— Shirley Chisholm
Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love.
— Pope John Paul II