Quotes about Ethics
When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.
— Erwin McManus
There is explosive power in virtue.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?
— Frank Herbert
What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?
— Albert Camus
The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't be intimidated by power, wealth or station, character alone makes all the difference.
— Joe Biden
The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.
— Abraham Lincoln
Power always brings with it responsibility.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We must always seek to ally ourselves with that part of the enemy that knows what is right.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
And what does it mean to take care of power? Do you use it? Conserve it? Keep it out of the wrong hands?
— Rainbow Rowell