Quotes about Ethics

Vices are their own punishment.

Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.

No gratitude from the wicked.

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

Neighbourliness is not a quality in other people, it is simply their claim on ourselves.

Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they must give up, as inappropriate to this topic, the very two questions that led them to deal with the ethical problem: 'How can I be good?' and 'How can I do something good?' Instead they must ask the wholly other, completely different question: 'What is the will of God?

It is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to lie.

The limitation of the ethical phenomenon to its place and time does not imply its rejection but, on the contrary, its validation. One does not use canons to shoot sparrows.

Only when Christian faith in God is lost do people feel compelled to make use of all means—even criminal—to force the victory of their cause.