Quotes about Ethics

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

It takes an awfully good man... to beat no man at all." - Tillie

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'

If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.