Quotes about Ethics
Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life—reasonable people don't shoot unless they're absolutely sure they won't kill an innocent human being.
- Norman Geisler
a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.
- Norman Geisler
The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.
- Norman Geisler
the Moral Law is not always the standard by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we expect others to treat us.
- Norman Geisler
If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?
- Norman Geisler
God gave animals a lower rank, in the service of man.
- Olga Tokarczuk
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
- Origen