Quotes about Ethics

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.

The royal dynasty of King David, as portrayed in the biblical text, was a tax-collecting, labor-exploiting, surplus-wealth-exhibiting regime.

The point that prophetic imagination must ponder is that there is no freedom of God without the politics of justice and compassion, and there is no politics of justice and compassion without a religion of the freedom of God.

power is not free to disregard truth.

A cunning politician often lurks under the clerical robe; things spiritual and things temporal are strangely jumbled together, like drugs on an apothecary's shelf; and instead of a peaceful sermon, the simple seeker after righteousness has often a political pamphlet thrust down his throat, labeled with a pious text from Scripture.

I do not think poor human nature so sorry a piece of workmanship as they would make it out to be; and as far as I have observed, I am fully satisfied that man, if left to himself, would about as readily go right as wrong. It is only this eternally sounding in his ears that it is his duty to go right which makes him go the very reverse. The

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Do the right thing, deliver what you promised, and be consistent in the way you do it no matter what.

Rather we must seek out9 the good things peculiar to the good, and give the widest berth to the evils peculiar to evil men.