Quotes about Ethics
Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.
- John Piper
self-interest is not the same as selfishness.
- John Piper
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
- John Quincy Adams
Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
- John Quincy Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?
- John Wesley
October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.
- John Wesley
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
- John Wesley
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
- John Wesley
True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.
- John Wesley
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.
- John Wesley
What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
- John Wooden