Quotes about Ethics
Clean hands are better than full ones in the sight of God.
- Publilius Syrus
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
- Oscar Wilde
The god of compassion is NOT the god of justice.
- Dennis Prager
If there is no God, the labels 'good' and 'evil' are merely opinions. They are substitutes for 'I like it' and 'I don't like it.' They are not objective realities.
- Dennis Prager
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
- Elbert Hubbard
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
- Francis Collins
The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib
- Frank Herbert
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
- George Eliot
I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
- Harold S. Kushner
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
- Herman Melville
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
- John Donne