Quotes about Ethics

This means that, bad though it is and dangerous though its slipway may prove, there is a sense in which hypocrisy may be preferable to wickedness. Hypocrisy still cares enough about virtue to want to pretend to be virtuous, or at least it recognizes that the society around still prizes virtue enough to make it worth flattering.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance.

Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Never look for justice in this world, but never cease to give it.

The Sermon on the Mount is not an ideal, it is a statement of what will happen in me when Jesus Christ has altered my disposition and put in a disposition like His own. Jesus Christ is the only One Who can fulfil the Sermon on the Mount.

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is—Never look for justice, but never cease to give

If you act deceitfully, God's blight and ruin will be upon you. What may be craftiness for you, may not be for others—God has called you to a higher standard. Never dull your sense of being your utmost for His highest—your best for His glory.

No one is born either naturally or supernaturally with character; it must be developed.