Quotes about Ethics
On the other hand, every virtue and every good deed turns worthless if pride creeps into it - which happens whenever in some fashion we glory in our goodness.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.
— Dinesh D'Souza
You don't even have to believe in anything to be good to people. You should just know you should be a good human being.
— Dolly Parton
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
— Ayn Rand
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
— Albert Schweitzer
Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.
— Gordon Fee
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
— Pope John Paul II
The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.
— Clement of Alexandria
The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
— Henry B. Eyring
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
— Confucius
Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we'd have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.
— Billy Graham
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
— Epictetus