Quotes about Ethics

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.

If doing the bad thing never brought benefits, no one would ever do

The most important thing to understand when it comes to our baser parts is not only how normal and natural it is to have them but that there is nothing wrong in having them. Bad is doing bad, not thinking bad (there are exceptions—see the next chapter), and it is certainly not merely having bad tendencies.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

The rubric of proportionality had to be observed—that the means were proportional to the objective.

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

A prominent businessman once replied to a question: "If I had to name the one most important quality of a top manager, I would say, personal integrity.

Selecting leaders apart from spiritual qualifications leads always to unspiritual administration.

The evangelical Christian is not true to his profession if he leaves his Christianity behind him on Monday morning.

Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use