Quotes about Ethics

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.

But there is no perfect guide for discerning God's movement in the world, Contrary to what many conservatives say, the Bible is not a blueprint on this matter. It is a valuable symbol for point to God's revelation in Jesus, but it is not self-interpreting. We are thus place in an existential situation of freedom in which the burden is on us to make decisions without a guaranteed ethical guide.

Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart.

The unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision.