Quotes about Ethics

Hard studies, much knowledge, and excellent preaching are but a more glorious hypocritical sinning if the ends are not right.

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

Good ends will not justify evil actions. What

Americans believe that the bottom line isn't everything, it's the only thing, and America is strangling on that lack of vision."13 Bennis also noted, "It isn't either a bull or a bear market anymore, it's a pig market."14

religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.

The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

First-half-of-life religion is almost always about various types of purity codes or "thou shalt nots" to keep us up, clear, clean, and together, like good Boy and Girl Scouts. A certain kind of "purity" and self-discipline is also "behovely," at least for a while in the first half of life, as the Jewish Torah brilliantly presents.

for Action and Contemplation puts it this way: "The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better." I

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.