Quotes about Ethics
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
— Henry David Thoreau
Be true to your work, your word, and you're friend.
— Henry David Thoreau
Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death.
— Henry David Thoreau
Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors.
— Henry David Thoreau
If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!
— Henry David Thoreau
I would not subtract anything from the praise that is due to philanthropy but merely demand justice for all who by their lives and works are a blessing to mankind.
— Henry David Thoreau
I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with—the dollar is innocent—but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance.
— Henry David Thoreau
What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?
— Henry David Thoreau
do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.
— Henry David Thoreau
Along with every right thing to do is a right way to do it.
— Henry Blackaby
Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness.
— Herman Melville