Quotes about Ethics
By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.
- Albert Schweitzer
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.
- William Saroyan
You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.
- William Wilberforce
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
- William Wilberforce
God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.
- William Wilberforce
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
- William Wilberforce
What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.
- William Wilberforce
Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.
- William Wilberforce
You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.
- William Wilberforce
We are all guilty... [But the opportunity to make money] can draw a film across the eyes, so thick, that total blindness could do no more... A trade founded in iniquity must be abolished... let the consequences be what they will.
- William Wilberforce
Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.
- William Wilberforce