Quotes about Ethics
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.
— George W. Bush
By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as his enemy.
— Thomas Jefferson
A president must make decisions based upon principle and stand by the principles by which he makes decisions in order to achieve peace.
— George W. Bush
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
— Albert Schweitzer
In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.
— CS Lewis
Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.
— Peter Kreeft
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good.
— CS Lewis
Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.
— Jim Rohn
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
— John Calvin
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
— CS Lewis
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen