Quotes about Ethics
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
- John Milton
If we continue to teach about tolerance and intolerance instead of good and evil, we will end up with tolerance of evil.
- Dennis Prager
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
- John Adams
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
- Thomas Jefferson
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
- Dennis Prager
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
- Jesse Jackson
A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.
- George Washington
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
- CS Lewis
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- CS Lewis
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.
- Charles Spurgeon