Quotes about Ethics

Wickedness consists in the very hesitation about an act, even though it be not perpetrated.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

I want to make sure that no matter how long I go through this, I don't fall into the trap of changing and modifying how I do things that aren't a positive example. I want to remain somebody that the entire family can listen to or watch.

Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.

Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is at the same time the almighty, divine will, which not only prescribes the good in the moral law, but also works it effectually in man himself. The heteronomy of law and the autonomy of man are reconciled only by this theonomy.

Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.

Philosophy arose out of religion,