Quotes about Ethics

People wanted to make products based on our child's name, and you don't want anybody trying to benefit off your baby's name.

Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.

Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.