Quotes about Ethics
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
— John Quincy Adams
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
— Euripides
The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
— Leland Ryken
Let's face it - selling weapons systems to the Army isn't women's work.
— Judith Love Cohen
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
— George Washington Carver
When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.
— Alveda King
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
— Michael Novak
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
— Mary Harris Jones
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.
— Moby
We count on the FEC to be the public's watchdog.
— Ted Deutch