Quotes about Ethics

He who kills a person kills a reasonable creature, but he who kills a good book destroys reason itself.

Had anyone written and divulged erroneous things and scandalous to honest life, misusing and forfeiting the esteem had of his reason among men, if after conviction this only censure were adjudged him that he should never henceforth write

Who now is sovereign can dispose and bid What shall be right: farthest from him is best

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

That is what our Fuhrer maintains- that some are more worthy of life than others. Indeed, he asserts that an elite few in the world are worthy of life and procreation. Ask yourself, if you do not believe that to be true why is it not? If this child is not able to contribute to society in the same way you and I are able, does it make her less valuable? How do you know?

Current religiosity and ethics, especially those that replace the story of the cross with demands for social reform, have produced many a theology of glory. It still flourishes along with its attendant despair. There is no cure through the law. It will take some dying. So we are already on the way to the cross.

Men are moved most by their religion; especially when it is irreligion.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

I don't have to wear a three-piece suit to be a good person, but I would like everything about me-even my clothes-to reflect a certain uncompromising integrity.

Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

The Second Amendment, like all of our rights, is reliant on a moral and virtuous people. Without that, nothing else matters. Man can not rule himself if... moral sentiment is missing.