Quotes about Ethics
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
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
— Graham Greene
The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.
— John Calvin
When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.
— Ayn Rand
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.
— Ayn Rand
People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.
— Confucius
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
— Marcus Aurelius
Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A first impulse was never a crime.
— Pierre Corneille
I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.
— Reinhold Niebuhr