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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
— Ben Carson
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
— Phillips Brooks
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.
— Roland Allen
Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.
— Justin Welby
Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse
— St. Augustine
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
— St. Augustine
For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?
— St. Augustine
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
— St. Augustine
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
— St. Augustine
Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.
— St. Augustine