Quotes about Ethics

In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict.

Ritual observance without moral rectitude is worse than empty; it is a counterfeit religious coin with which a worshipper wishes to procure divine and human approval for behavior that deserves censure (see Isa. 58:3—7).

Contrary to the assumptions of Western moral traditions, human beings are (1) not free in their actions but governed by necessity; (2) not transparent to themselves and others in their motivations, but opaque; (3) not similar to each other and therefore subject to the same moral code, but each different.

Everything else follows from this responsibility to those who have come before us. It is the root of flourishing humanity.

To remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it.

the central question was how to remember rightly. And given my Christian sensibilities, my question from the start was, How should I remember abuse as a person committed to loving the wrongdoer and overcoming evil with good?

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.

The Golden Rule means we should do unto others as we would wish them to do unto us if our positions were reversed.