Quotes about Ethics
[Sunday] should be different from another day. People may walk, but not throw stones at birds. There may be relaxation, but there should be no levity.
— Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
— Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
— Samuel Johnson
What is warranted by the direction of nature's light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law?
— Samuel Rutherford
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
— John Ortberg
Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.
— Harry S. Truman
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.
— Aristotle
We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.
— RC Sproul
He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
— St. Basil
One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.
— Zig Ziglar