Quotes about Ethics
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
— Aristotle
Violence begins with the fork.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
— St. Augustine
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
— Cicero
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
— Epicurus
Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
— John Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
— John F. Kennedy
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower