Quotes about Ethics
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.
— Charles Spurgeon
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
— Margaret Mead
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.
— Thomas Merton
A good character is the best tombstone.
— Charles Spurgeon
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
— CS Lewis
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
— Cicero
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
— Diane von Furstenberg
The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.
— Henry Ford
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
— DA Carson
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A good reputation is more valuable than money.
— Publilius Syrus