Quotes about Ethics

To point out other people's errors was a duty that Mr. Bulstrode rarely shrank from

Three words have often been used as the trumpet-call of men - the words God, Immortality, Duty - pronounced with terrible earnestness. How inconceivable was the first, how unbelievable was the second, and yet how peremptory and absolute the third.

We prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil which gradually determines character.

Let us bind love with duty; for duty is the love of law; and law is the nature of the Eternal.' So we bound ourselves.

The character of the publican and sinner is not always practically incompatible with that of the modern Pharisee, for the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dullness of our own jokes.

There's Jeremy Taylor's 'Holy Living and Dying' among 'em. I read

Infringe upon the rights of no one. Borrow no tool but what you will return according to promise. Take no wood, nor anything else but what belongs to you - and if you find anything that is not your own, do not hide it away, but report it, that the owner may be found.

Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions.

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.