Quotes about Ethics
I'm not a political person that much, but I've got common sense. I know when something's not right.
— Mike Evans
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.
— Stanley Hauerwas
The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
— Bill Gates
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Power," said Henry Adams, "is poison"; and it is a poison which blinds the eyes of moral insight and lames the will of moral purpose. The
— Reinhold Niebuhr
civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Religion is a good thing for good people and a bad thing for bad people.
— Reinhold Niebuhr