Quotes about Ethics
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.
- Theodore Roosevelt
To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?
- Ayn Rand
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
- Thomas Jefferson
To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
- Desmond Tutu
Of two evils, choose neither.
- Charles Spurgeon
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
- Albert Schweitzer
More depends on my walk than talk.
- DL Moody
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.
- Barack Obama
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
- George Eliot
the wicked find it a consolation to carp at the good, supposing the guilt of sin to be less, in proportion as the number of those who commit it is greater.
- Jerome
Take Care not to have an itching tongue, nor tingling ears; neither attract others, nor listen to backbiters. [Letter to Nepotian]
- Jerome
Third, we must never use the doctrine of God's sovereignty to excuse our own sinful actions or decisions that hurt another person.
- Jerry Bridges