Quotes about Ethics

Above all it never ceases to proclaim that worship of God without justice to man is an abomination; that while man's problem is God, God's problem is man.

One should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.

Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.