Quotes about Ethics
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
— Samuel Johnson
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
— Samuel Johnson
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
— Samuel Johnson
There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
— Samuel Johnson
[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
The tyranny of relativism is the spiritual poverty of our time
— Pope Francis
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