Quotes about Ethics
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
Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.
— Os Guinness
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
— Henry David Thoreau
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us
— Aristotle
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
— Cicero
It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.
— Cicero
It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.
— Cicero
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
— Joseph Addison
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
— Samuel Johnson
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
— Samuel Johnson
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson