Quotes about Ethics
We have freedom to do good or evil; yet to make choice of evil, is not to use, but to abuse our freedom.
- Francis de Sales
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mahatma Gandhi
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us.
- DA Carson
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
- Brigham Young
Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
- Pope Benedict XVI
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
- Aldous Huxley
Without freedom there can be no morality.
- Carl Jung
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
- William Barclay
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
- Madeleine L'Engle
The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.
- Erwin McManus
For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.
- Muqtada al Sadr
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
- CS Lewis