Quotes about Ethics
Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.
— Abraham Lincoln
Menschen, die keine Laster haben, haben auch nur wenige Tugenden.
— Abraham Lincoln
Vices are their own punishment.
— Aesop
Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.
— Aesop
No gratitude from the wicked.
— Aesop
Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.
— DiAnn Mills
The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they must give up, as inappropriate to this topic, the very two questions that led them to deal with the ethical problem: 'How can I be good?' and 'How can I do something good?' Instead they must ask the wholly other, completely different question: 'What is the will of God?
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer