Quotes about Ethics
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
— Origen
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
— George Bernard Shaw
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
— John Tillotson
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