Quotes about Ethics
If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.
- Billy Graham
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
- CS Lewis
He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.
- Thomas Adams
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
- Thomas Paine
But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
- Victor Hugo
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.
- William Faulkner
The Law and the Lawgiver are one.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God is always the upholder of justice.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
- Mahatma Gandhi