Quotes about Ethics
Selecting leaders apart from spiritual qualifications leads always to unspiritual administration.
— J. Oswald Sanders
The evangelical Christian is not true to his profession if he leaves his Christianity behind him on Monday morning.
— J. Gresham Machen
Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.
— J. Oswald Sanders
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use
— Dale Carnegie
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, for your character is what you are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— Dale Carnegie
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
— Nancy Pearcey
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
— John Henry Newman
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
— Marquis de Sade
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
— Albert Camus
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
— William Hazlitt
The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
— Confucius
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
— Euripides