Quotes about Ethics
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
- Euripides
I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
- Aristotle
It's man's sympathy, with all Gods creatures, that makes him truly a man.
- Albert Einstein
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.
- Anonymous
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
- St. Augustine
The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
- St. Augustine
The desire of reward is one of the strongest incentives of human conduct; ... the best security for the fidelity of mankind is to make their interest coincide with their duty.
- Alexander Hamilton
Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.
- Joseph Campbell
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas Jefferson