Quotes about Ethics
Most of the time most people know the right thing to do ...its the doing of it that gives them trouble
— Harry S. Truman
Go beyond what you feel like doing and do what's right. Every time you do what's right when you don't feel like it, you are growing.
— Joyce Meyer
If we're morally responsible for monitoring our own souls, then we're morally responsible, as well, for monitoring the soul of our nation.
— Marianne Williamson
we must refuse to speak in sanitized clinical euphemisms like calling adulteries "affairs," fornication "dating," and perverts "partners" because God uses frank words for deplorable sin so we will feel its sickness without anesthesia.
— Mark Driscoll
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
— Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
— Mark Twain
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
— Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
— Mark Twain
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
— Mark Twain
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
— Aristotle
Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
— Aristotle
He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.
— Aristotle