Quotes About Ethics

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

People who think God is on their side are capable of the most inhumane acts. (Petrov)

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Apparently Fitzgerald hoped to soften the harshness of her reply when he asked her: "Have you killed anybody to get someone out of jail?" With a strange little smile, Cathy turned her head and, looking directly at the jury, replied: "Not yet.

I'd rather kill people than animals.

It is well known in the legal profession that many judges, upon ascending the bench, think they are three steps closer to God.

The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to see that justice is done…

It is said that the principal element that distinguishes a profession from a business is that in a profession, one's primary obligation is to those he serves, not to himself.

Now, the Bible says that if there is no moral law, there would be no sin. Therefore, sin is a transgression of the moral law.

God wants us to recognize good as good, evil as evil, and never confuse the two. Individuals and societies become wicked in the sight of God when they pervert justice and ethics by confusing or even reversing the definitions of good and evil.

The influence of secular culture has become so thorough that many do not even believe in the existence of good and evil. They consider all moral standards to be based on individual preferences or societal factors.

Nevertheless, this knowledge is indestructible and undeniable, so that it surfaces in distorted forms in non-Christian religions, philosophies, and ethical principles.

men everywhere speak and behave as though there is objective morality. Even those who deny objective morality react as if such a thing exists, especially when their own standard is offended, or when their own welfare is threatened. A person cannot affirm objective morality, either by word or action, and reject its necessary precondition.

Many people have a distorted concept of sin due to the influence of secular philosophy and psychology.

our objective standard for determining what is good is the Bible.

Isaiah 5:20, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Instead of measuring freedom by whether our thoughts and actions are free from God, we are "free" as long as we are free relative to other created things, and then we build moral responsibility on that. They just changed the reference point.

Why is the gospel discredited when a believer steals from his employer? And when a pastor commits adultery, what does it have anything to do with the truth concerning Jesus Christ?

By this book, he defines for man truth and error, and right and wrong.

the very ideas of right and wrong remain undefined without his verbal revelation – he must define these concepts for us, and only his definitions are authoritative, relevant, and binding on all people.

Sin corrupts and erodes a person's heart,

because human society has not been operating under this principle, it has passed laws that open the floodgate to mass murder (as in abortion), that endorse rampant sodomy, that consider adultery as a private affair between consenting adults, and that grant divorce as a right to be freely exercised.

The standard of right and wrong rested solely on God's authority, not as something outside of him, but as identical to his will, and expressed in his instructions and commands.