Quotes about Ethics

The Bonhoeffers raised their children to do the right thing, so when they behaved selflessly and bravely, it was difficult to argue.

One cannot demand "the truth" at any cost, and for this girl to admit in front of the class that her father is a drunkard is to dishonor him. How one tells the truth depends on circumstances.

They understood that freedom was not merely the freedom to be left alone; it was the freedom to do what was right.

Of the many societal problems Wilberforce might have thought needed his attention, slavery would have been the least visible of all, and by a wide margin.

Some wondered whether he was just kicking against the goads, but when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If you board the wrong train,' he said, 'it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction.

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.

I've made six films for Disney, and they have a clause in their contracts called the morality clause that I've always refused to sign.

Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.