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Quotes About Ethics

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
~ John Webster
And great men do great good, or else great harm.
~ John Webster
What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?
~ John Webster
That execrable sum of all villainies, commonly called the Slave Trade.
~ John Wesley
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?
~ John Wesley
October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.
~ John Wesley
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
~ John Wesley
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
~ John Wesley
True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.
~ John Wesley
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.
~ John Wesley
Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.
~ John Wesley
Theologians were convinced that slavery belonged to Catholic doctrine. It was manifestly contained, they thought, in the Word of God. "It is certainly a matter of faith that slavery in which a man serves his master as a slave, is altogether lawful. This can be proved from Holy Scripture.
~ John Wijngaards
If all the bishops in the world had been asked, two hundred years ago, whether slavery is allowed by God, 95 per cent of them, including the Pope, would have said, 'Yes, slavery is allowed'. Yet in spite of their number, they would all have been wrong.
~ John Wijngaards
They do the work, and he gets all the money. They think he's a crook, and he thinks they're fools. You can't blame either side; they're both right.
~ John Williams
Ach, wie anständig finden wir uns doch, wenn wir keinen Anlass haben, unanständig zu sein!
~ John Williams
Den intellektuelle borde inte bli tvingad att förstöra det som han ägnat sitt liv åt att bygga upp.
~ John Williams
And it seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult.
~ John Williams
un etica che gli imponeva di offrire al mondo tiranno visi sempre inespressivi, rigidi e spenti.
~ John Williams
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
~ John Wooden
What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.
~ John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
~ John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
~ John Wooden
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
~ John Wooden
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
~ John Wooden