Quotes about Ethics
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
— Jonathan Edwards
Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.
— Albert Schweitzer
Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity
— Charles Swindoll
If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn't show yet.
— John Maxwell
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
— Confucius
Prevention of birth is premature murder, and it makes no difference whether it is a life already born that one snatches away or a life that is coming to birth.
— Tertullian
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
Defend the unborn against abortion even if they persecute you, calumniate you, set traps for you, take you to court or kill you.
— Pope Francis