Quotes about Ethics
True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us.
— DA Carson
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
— Brigham Young
Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.
— Pope Benedict XVI
We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.
— Aldous Huxley
Without freedom there can be no morality.
— Carl Jung
Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.
— William Barclay
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The journey to freedom is paved by the substance of our character.
— Erwin McManus
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
— CS Lewis
Everybody is born free. Not everybody is worthy of freedom.
— Os Guinness
It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.
— Henry David Thoreau
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke