Quotes about Ethics
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
- Aristotle
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
- Abraham Lincoln
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
- Ronald Reagan
Stand for right, even if you stand alone.
- Thomas Monson
And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
- Albert Camus
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
- Charles Dickens
Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
- Brian Tracy
Refuse to compromise what you know to be right for anyone or anything.
- Brian Tracy
In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice.
- Samuel Johnson
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
- Robert Louis Stevenson