Quotes about Ethics
You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
- Samuel Johnson
Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
- Bernice King
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
- Albert Schweitzer
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
- Desmond Tutu
Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.
- Tertullian
Responsibility is the price of freedom.
- Elbert Hubbard
What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.
- Glenn Beck
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
- DH Lawrence
We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
- Stephen Covey
Compromise for compromise sake is never good, unless it is grounded in principles.
- Pramila Jayapal
I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.
- Donald Trump