Quotes about Ethics

I watched a TV show where the scientist proudly showed how he could kill little mice by making a certain kind of loud noise.

I watched a TV show where the scientist proudly showed how he could kill little mice by making a certain kind of loud noise.

Help people realize that their actions, however small they may seem, will truly make a difference. The cumulative effect of thousands of ethical actions can help to save and improve our world for future generations. And why would you bother to take action if you did not truly hope that it would make a difference?

We must remember that we have not inherited this planet from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children. But we have not been borrowing their future, we have stolen it and we keep stealing it.

I think humanity at least has a shared understanding of what justice means.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

When politicians presume to do God's work, they do not become divine but diabolical.

How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it