Quotes about Ethics
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
— Confucius
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.
— Mother Teresa
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.
— Confucius
Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.
— John Henry Newman
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
— Confucius
The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
When you lead with integrity you won't always win, but you will always do the right thing.
— Jon Gordon
I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light that I have. —Abraham Lincoln sixteenth
— Jon Gordon
of a corrupt spirit, that breaks over all bounds, and loves inordinate vastnesse; that is it we ought to be carefull of.
— Jonathan Edwards
What we call a vice is actually an inability to recognize what has the greatest value.
— Jonathan Edwards
Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
— Jonathan Edwards