Quotes about Ethics
The seriousness of ecological degradation lays bare the depth of man's moral crisis... Simplicity, moderation, and discipline as well as the spirit of sacrifice must become a part of everyday life.
— Pope John Paul II
Any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
— Herman Melville
I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
— St. Augustine
It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.
— Vance Havner
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin
— Charles Hodge
The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit." (Analects 4.16)
— Confucius
Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.
— Greg Koukl
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
— Albert Camus
To the truly ethical man, all of life is sacred, including forms of life that from the human point of view may seem lower than ours.
— Albert Schweitzer