Quotes about Ethics
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
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
— Marcus Aurelius
Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.
— Albert Einstein
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
— Albert Schweitzer