Quotes about Ethics

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.

Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is at the same time the almighty, divine will, which not only prescribes the good in the moral law, but also works it effectually in man himself. The heteronomy of law and the autonomy of man are reconciled only by this theonomy.

Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.

Philosophy arose out of religion,

If the moral law or the ideal good indeed exists outside of us, then it must be grounded in and be one with the Godhead.

Christian ethics maintains that the whole man must be good in intellect and will, heart and conscience. To do good is a duty and a desire, a task and a privilege, and thus the work of love. Love is therefore the fulfilling of the law.

Atheism is not proper to man by nature, but develops at a later stage of life, on the ground of philosophical reflection; like scepticism, it is an intellectual and ethical abnormality, which only confirms the rule. By nature every man believes in God.

Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.

A virtuous expediency, then, seems the highest desirable or attainable earthly excellence for the mass of men, and is the only earthly excellence that their Creator intended for them.

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.