Quotes about Ethical Standards
The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
— George Bernard Shaw
My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?
— Simon Sinek
We make a mistake in thinking that something is right or wrong because culture deems it such. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, culture may approve or disapprove, but if there is no overarching umbrella of truth beyond culture, our times may wreak havoc in the name of culture. Slavery is an example of this. People did not flinch at the barbaric practices that were tolerated for so long. The abuse of marriage is no less a crime against humanity.
— Ravi Zacharias
If musicians and artists have no absolutes, they end up caring more about the way the thing is told than about the thing itself, and they slide deeper and deeper till it's their means rather than the ends that matter.
— Ravi Zacharias
He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down.
— Joseph Heller
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
— Rachel Held Evans