Quotes about Ethics
Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.
— Jim Rohn
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
— John Calvin
Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.
— CS Lewis
If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.
— Aristotle
Violence begins with the fork.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.
— St. Augustine
Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.
— Cicero
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
— Epicurus
Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.
— John Adams