Quotes about Ethics

To saddle the next generation with unimaginable debt is not only callous, it is morally reprehensible.

Godliness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. PROVERBS 14:34

When the party becomes more important than principle, we are in dire straits

We are convinced that we have a clear conscience, wanting to conduct ourselves honorably in everything. Hebrews 13:18

You don't have to take an ethics course. You don't have to know God well to know that, if he is righteous at all, some things are wrong. If he is good at all, some things are evil. If God is love, then nothing is more blasphemous than hate.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that war requires. War also requires that we sacrifice our normal unwillingness to kill.

I have this feeling that as time goes on, we're not getting any more civilized, and we should be. We're still running around like the days of Genghis Khan. There are so many important, better things to do and we need to encourage people to reach into the brighter side of humanity and not encourage people to continue to glorify the darker side.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Every virtue that reaches the exaggeration, is becoming a defect