Quotes about Ethics
The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.
— Mortimer Adler
Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
— Confucius
I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.
— Ben Carson
My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.
— John Piper
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civilization depends on morality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson