Quotes about Ethics
In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.
— Khalil Gibran
My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
— Martin Luther
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.
— Samuel Johnson
Peace if possible but truth at any rate.
— Martin Luther
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
— Pope John Paul II
It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
— Mae West
To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
— St. Augustine
Nations cannot endure in sin.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Sin may result from activities that begin innocently or that are perfectly legitimate in moderation, but in excess they can cause us to veer from the straight and narrow path to our destruction.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
— Pope Benedict XVI