Quotes about Ethics

The people I've been exposed to have been people of amazing integrity.

I just try to make as much money as possible. However I can do it. With as much integrity as I can have.

Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.

Stick by your righteous guns and you will bless your fellowman. Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible--but in that order.

Whenever we are sure that we are among the righteous, we immediately find ourselves among the arrogant.

If we think of Christian theology and ethics purely in terms of forgiveness, we will have neglected a central aspect of God's own character and will be in no position to understand the cross in its fullest dimension.

Only those who are forgiven and who are willing to forgive will be capable of relentlessly pursuing justice without falling into the temptations to pervert it into injustice" (Exclusion and Embrace, 123).

Speak the truth and shame the Devil.