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Quotes about Ethics

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
- George Bernard Shaw
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
- GK Chesterton
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.
- Herman Melville
Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
- Bill Hybels
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
- Confucius
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
- Henry David Thoreau
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- CS Lewis
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
- David O. McKay
Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.
- George H. W. Bush
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
- Martin Luther
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
- Edmund Burke