Quotes about Ethics
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
— Confucius
If I raise one corner for someone and he cannot come back with the other three, I do not go on.
— Confucius
To destroy the fetus 'is something worse than murder.' The one who does this 'does not take away life that has already been born, but prevents it from being born.'
— St. John Chrysostom
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I think of those who have influenced my life the most, I think not of the great but of the good.
— John Knox
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
— Edmund Hillary
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.
— Albert Einstein
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.
— St. Basil
Practice coming from a place of integrity and you will be victorious. 2.
— Jen Sincero
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
— Epictetus
Asked how a man should best grieve his enemy, Epictetus replied, By setting himself to live the noblest life himself.
— Epictetus