Quotes about Ethics
It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Yet our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but rather how to remain human in the skyscrapers. NOTES 1 Portions of this section are based on Heschel, Man Is Not Alone (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1951).
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Above all it never ceases to proclaim that worship of God without justice to man is an abomination; that while man's problem is God, God's problem is man.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
One should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry
- Abraham Lincoln
Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
- Abraham Lincoln
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
- Abraham Lincoln
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
But for this book we could not know right from wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln