Quotes about Ethics
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
— CS Lewis
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.
— CS Lewis
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.
— CS Lewis
I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What you do to these men on California's Death Row, you do to God.
— Mother Teresa
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
— Pope John Paul II
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
— Herman Melville
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
— St. Augustine
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
— Vance Havner