Quotes About Ethics

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

He who hates vice hates men.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

The duty of priviledge is absolute intregity

Satan came to a lawyer and told him he would give him fame and fortune in exchange for his soul and the souls of his wife and children. The lawyer hesitated and examined Satan closely.'Okay," he said,"what's the catch?

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

This pep talk was sometimes combined with a rueful reminder to himself about the loneliness of ethical leadership: 'the post of honor is a private station.

There can be no compromise between wrong and right. Germany is wrong and the Allies are right. The devastations of Belgium and the atrocities of the invading horde of barbarians are an outrage to civilized mankind.

Just do the next right thing. Then repeat indefinitely.

Pastors and leaders must recognize, and then relinquish, any methods of control and manipulation they exercise. They must cease to gossip against fellow pastors and other believers, to talk disrespectfully about other ministries, or to reveal personal tidbits shared in confidence with them. Pastors who have privileged information, are sometimes the worst offenders of gossip. They must refrain from talebearing, before the wineskin tears.

Conflict in itself is not sin. But sin may enter into the situation, depending on how we approach conflict, how we deal with it, and especially how we treat each other. Sin is a feature of the quality of our relationships.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

Concern yourself with what is right rather than who is right.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.

The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...

Doing right for right's sake is atheistic.Christians should do what God says is right because in doing it we enjoy more of God.

The foundation of moral life as God's truthfulness.

The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.

There are two ways of recommending true religion and virtue in the world, which God hath made use of: the one is by doctrine and precept; the other by instance and example.

There is no portrait of Jesus in the New Testament as a merely human teacher of ethics. There is only the Lord of glory. The fulfiller of history. The judge of the universe.

There is no point in winning an argument if you know or suspect you are wrong.

Denying rights that protect lesser values to maintain rights that protect greater values is what good laws are supposed to do.