Quotes about Ethics
Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.
— Drew Barrymore
If you work for a man, in Heavens name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.
— Elbert Hubbard
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
— Andrew Carnegie
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
— George Bernard Shaw
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
— Pope John Paul II
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery
— Steven James
The only people who aren't hypocrites are those whose morals are so twisted, whose consciences are so seared, that they don't believe in any ideals higher than those they actually live out.
— Steven James
Justice doesn't always have clean hands, and we all have dark desires clawing at our wills.
— Steven James
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
— Glenn Beck
The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.
— Joe Biden
Attempts to construct an ethic from the rules of evolution, or from psychology and sociology, end up being simply inadequate.
— Pope Benedict XVI
If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or to the ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin - but it is not of Edward of England that I shall ask pardon.
— William Wallace