Quotes about Ethics
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
- Charles Spurgeon
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
- Confucius
It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
- Publilius Syrus
Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.
- Cicero
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
- Cicero
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
- Ludwig Borne
I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
- Peter Kreeft
If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
- Mark Twain
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
- Tertullian
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
- Thomas Jefferson
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
- Cicero