Quotes about Ethics
Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.
- CS Lewis
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
- Dante Alighieri
We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.
- Earl Nightingale
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
- Euripides
The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.
- GK Chesterton
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
- John Wesley
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
- Karl Barth
Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.
- Cicero
The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
- Cicero
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
- St. Augustine
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
- Samuel Johnson
Every man prefers virtue, when there is not some strong incitement to transgress its precepts.
- Samuel Johnson