Quotes about Ethical Standards
Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.
— Marcel Pagnol
You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!
— Abraham Lincoln
While public opinion might sway back and forth, right and wrong do not.
— Andy Andrews
If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.
— John Adams
You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals
— Mahatma Gandhi
It's a big error to dream of a society where nobody needs to be good.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.
— Jimmy Carter
What else is the law made for, but to be the rule of life, and the rule of judgment? Read Psal. i. and xv.; Matt. v. vii. and xxv.,
— Richard Baxter
What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.
— William Wilberforce
A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
— CS Lewis
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
— George Bernard Shaw