Quotes about Ethics
You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.
— Andy Stanley
Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.
— Andy Stanley
Do you know why people are prone to make such foolish moral decisions? Because something always whispers to us that our situations are unique: Nobody has ever felt this way before.
— Andy Stanley
Just because there isn't a "Thou shalt not" attached to a situation does not necessarily mean it is a "Thou shalt.
— Andy Stanley
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
— William James
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
— Epictetus
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
— Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
— Oscar Wilde
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
— Ayn Rand
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