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Quotes About Ethics

Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.
~ H. L. Mencken
Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.
~ Stefan Molyneux
Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected.
~ Sunday Adelaja
The real dawah to Islam is the character of a Muslim.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
When value systems are embraced by a nation, when the citizens of a country are truly rich in virtues, then material wealth is a matter of time.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Up till recently 75% of all inventions from the time of the industrial revolution is credited to the countries where Protestant ethics were taught
~ Sunday Adelaja
Always do the right and be the right, Whatever the circumstances.
~ Newpostcard
I had not, I said to myself, come into the future to carry on a miniature flirtation.
~ H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small matters as they are.
~ Gamaliel Bradford
O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!
~ Cicero
Over time, if you want rights, you have to also show that you can use them responsibly and that you can build a positive world in the online space, and that's also very important.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
~ Ada Lovelace
If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.
~ James Oglethorpe
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.
~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
~ Muhammad Yunus
If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
~ Ruhollah Khomeini
If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.
~ Glenn Frey
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
~ Petrarch
Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.
~ Anne Bradstreet
There is no more harm in adultery than in rubbing one's hands together.
~ Pope Boniface VIII
Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.
~ Alexander Pushkin
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
~ Napoleon Hill
Wealth and power don't go together. Power cannot be brokered. To me, power is responsibility.
~ Nita Ambani