Quotes about Ethics
I overhear the Manyuema telling each other that I am the "good one." I have no slaves, and I owe this character to the propagation of a good name by the slaves of Zanzibar, who are anything but good themselves.
- David Livingstone
Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
- Pope John Paul II
But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.
- John Knox
People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character
- Rick Warren
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
- Stanley Hauerwas
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
- William Wilberforce
What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'
- CS Lewis
If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
- RC Sproul
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
- Mahatma Gandhi
All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.
- Charles Hodge
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
- George Eliot
I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.
- John Wooden