Quotes about Ethics
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent.
- Dennis Prager
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
- Stephen Covey
Preservation of life is the only true joy.
- Albert Schweitzer
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it's kind of a sickness.
- Lauren Bacall
Good character improves every aspect of a person's life.
- John Maxwell
Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
We must always be on guard lest, under the pretext of keeping one commandment, we be found breaking another.
- St. Basil
In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
- Jonathan Krohn
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
- Jimmy Carter
A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.
- Jimmy Carter