Quotes About Ethics

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

Do every common act as a god should do it; speak every word as a god should speak it.

God forbid that Judges upon their oath should make resolutions to enlarge jurisdiction.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

I probably believe in God in a non-denominational way.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God.

I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.

The Law and the Lawgiver are one.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

God is always the upholder of justice.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.