Quotes about Ethics
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
- George Bernard Shaw
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.
- John Adams
When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.
- St. Augustine
Conscience is a man's compass.
- Vincent Van Gogh
True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.
- Confucius
The Way is not for, but from, man; if we take the Way as something superhuman, beyond man, this is not the real Way.
- Confucius
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
- Dante Alighieri
... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.
- Aristotle
Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
- Ayn Rand
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
- CS Lewis