Quotes about Ethics
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
— Albert Bandura
He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
— Joseph Addison
He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.
— Akiva ben Joseph
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
— Samuel Johnson
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
— Billy Sunday
Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.
— Abraham Lincoln
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
— Henry David Thoreau