Quotes about Ethics
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
- Margaret Mead
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.
- Thomas Merton
A good character is the best tombstone.
- Charles Spurgeon
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
- CS Lewis
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- Cicero
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
- Diane von Furstenberg
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.
- Henry Ford
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
- DA Carson
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
- Publilius Syrus
For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.
- Publilius Syrus