Quotes about Ethics
As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.
— Henri Nouwen
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
— Henry David Thoreau
The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.
— Milan Kundera
O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice
— Philip Yancey
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
— St. Augustine
Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.
— Lao Tzu
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
— St. Augustine
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
— CS Lewis
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
— Thomas Jefferson
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
— Thomas Jefferson