Quotes about Ethics
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
— Roger Williams
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Good moral character is the first essential in a man.
— George Washington
When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.
— CS Lewis
The world has no idea how much it owes to the presence of righteous men in it.
— FF Bruce
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
— Cicero
The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
— Thomas Jefferson
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
— CS Lewis
If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.
— John Owen
The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
— Thomas Jefferson
A man cannot do good before he is made good.
— Martin Luther