Quotes about Ethics
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.
— St. Jerome
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
— Albert Schweitzer
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.
— Ayn Rand
A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
— Stephen Covey
Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.
— Timothy Keller
The Sermon on the Mount seems dangerous. It challenges the whole underlying conception on which modern society is built. It would replace it by a new conception, animate it with a new motive, and turn it toward a new goal.
— E Stanley Jones
We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place. We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.
— E Stanley Jones
Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race".
— E Stanley Jones
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
— Edmund Burke
True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
— Edmund Burke
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
— Edmund Burke
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
— Edmund Burke