Quotes about Ethics

We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.

Oh, it's not done,' I said, 'but neither is adultery or theft or running away from the enemy's fire. The not done things are done every day, Henry. It's part of modern life. I've done most of them myself.

I wondered whether she would consent to sleep with me that night if Pyle never came, but I knew that when I had smoked four pipes I would no longer want her.

It is astonishing the sense of innocence that goes with sin--only the hard and careful man and the saint are free of it.

There was not much one could do; he decided at least to be good.

It had been an article of my creed. The human condition being what it was, let them fight, let them love, let them murder, I would not be involved. My fellow journalists called themselves correspondents; I preferred the title of reporter. I wrote what I saw. I took no action—even an opinion is a kind of action.

It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

To a large degree we have preached our own version of the knowledge of good and evil as though it were the message of salvation. We need to confess that we have sinned in the gravest fashion by frequently loving our version of truth and ethics more than people, and even God himself. For one cannot genuinely love God while refusing to love one's neighbor (1 John 4:20).

Our choices matter. Much hangs in the balance. Our freedom is God's risk and our dignity.

What makes a human being human? When does a human being become a person? When does a human being cease to be a person? What is the significance of being human? Is there an inherent value with inherent rights that go along with being human? These

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.