Quotes about Ethics

To live without duties is obscene.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

If you've been called to be a lawyer, don't stoop to be a king.

It took guts to ignore public opinion and do what you thought was right.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too.

With no fact as a referent, what is normative is purely a matter of preference.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth.

America has swerved from its ethical center.