Quotes about Ethics
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
— Thomas Jefferson
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
— Epictetus
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
— Cicero
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
— Nelson Mandela
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
— Theodore Roosevelt
America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
— George H. W. Bush
Happy and successful homes cannot be built on immorality.
— Ezra Taft Benson
A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.
— Wendell Berry
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
— George Eliot
Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.
— Mark Twain
Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.
— Mark Twain