Quotes about Ethics
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
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