Quotes About Ethics

Right Response to Reality—the Three R's—is the fundamental principle of morality, of sanctity, and of sanity.

Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things.

murder and adultery are great crimes.

If humility were not self-forgetfulness, any virtuous person would have the practical dilemma of either directing his attention to his own virtue, which naturally leads to pride, or denying it, which would be a lie.

the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—is moral today.

Morality flows from metaphysics because goodness flows from God.

the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.

Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That's why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens than moral relativists and subjectivists: they have stronger motives for obedience.

There—fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will.

we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.

4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.

The idea of resolving conflicts by killing people (which is what war is) is not a just thing, a just idea. In that sense there is no such thing as "just war". But to wage a given war may be a just action.

why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:

Tempting is not forcing.

As I said, relativism says there are no absolutes. Absolutely no absolutes.

Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

But if scandal arise from truth, the scandal should be borne rather than the truth be set aside

That's why I think that cultivation, 'becoming a real human being,' really is the primary leadership issue of our time, but on a scale never required before. It's a very old idea that may actually hold the key to a new age of 'global democracy.

Selling" generally means getting someone to do something that she might not do if she were in full possession of all the facts.

There is a difference between right and wrong, always was and always will be, but each man's wrong and each man's right are different.

If nobody is innocent, who can be guilty?

You can keep on assigning blame here, there and everywhere, but when it comes right down to it, we're responsible for what we do ourselves.