Quotes about Ethics

I never did think the truth was a crime.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.

One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

I'm not a political person that much, but I've got common sense. I know when something's not right.

To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life. After all, the life taken is not ours to take.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.