Quotes about Ethics
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we stop caring for whit is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Character is what you are in the dark.
- DL Moody
We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
- Ronald Reagan
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
- David Starr Jordan
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
- Norman Vincent Peale
God is clever, but not dishonest.
- Albert Einstein