Quotes about Ethics
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
— E Stanley Jones
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.
— Edith Wharton
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
— Philip Yancey
Love is more just than justice.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
— St. Augustine
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
— George Eliot
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.
— Jimmy Carter
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.
— John Milton
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
— Marianne Williamson