Quotes about Ethics
I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.
— Barbara Kingsolver
You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
— Malcolm X
The lack of moral character is the number one problem in the black community today
— Jesse Lee Peterson
I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.
— Karl Barth
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
— James A. Garfield
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
— John Milton
When men live as if there were no God, it becomes expedient for them that there should be none.
— John Tillotson
There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.
— John Tillotson
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
Hunting is not a proper employment for a thinking man.
— Joseph Addison
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
— Mahatma Gandhi