Quotes about Ethics
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
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
— Mark Twain
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
— Mark Twain
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.