Quotes about Ethics
Virtue is akin to holiness, an attribute of godliness.
- Ezra Taft Benson
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
- Edmund Burke
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
- Confucius
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
- Marquis de Sade
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
- John Milton
Donald Trump is not some great man of virtue, but this much I'll say for him: I think he loves America, and I don't think he wants to line his own pockets.
- Eric Metaxas
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
- Joseph Addison
A republican government can only be supported by virtue; and the end of all our legislation should be to encourage our fellow citizens in its daily practice.
- John Tyler
When the norm is decency, other virtues can thrive: integrity, honesty, compassion, kindness, and trust.
- Raja Krishnamoorthi
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
- St. Jerome
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
- Reinhold Niebuhr