Quotes About Ethics

Heaven itself has ordained the right.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

Candour and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.

The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment and learn again to exercise ... his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Sex, unlike justice, should not be seen to be done.

Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Stay out of jail.

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.