Quotes About Ethics

Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

We ask a simple question And that is all we wish: Are fishermen all liars? Or do only liars fish?

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

The way you buy has a lot to do with the way you worship and who you worship and what you worship.

Economic relationships do not operate on value-neutral laws, but are rather carriers of specific convictions about the nature of the human person - the person's origins and destiny. There is an implicit anthropology and an implicit theology in every economics.

The key question in every transaction is whether or not the transaction contributes to the flourishing of each person involved, and this question can only be judged, from a theological point of view, according to the end of human life, which is participation in the life of God.

Aquele que só for atraído pelas honrarias e pela ambição do mando, sem esperança de produzir trabalho útil, é indigno da posição que disputa e incapaz de exercer o poder.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

No one who is not a Christian in spirit can perform the Christian act; and the Sermon on the Mount is not a code of rules to be mechanically followed; it is the description of the life which any man will spontaneously lead when once the Spirit of Christ has taken complete possession of his heart.

O ye who lead,Take heed!Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the supression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

What a difference it would be if our system of morality were based on the Bible instead of the standards devised by cultural Christians.

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.

You can choose to look the other way but never again can you say that you never knew.

We are all guilty... [But the opportunity to make money] can draw a film across the eyes, so thick, that total blindness could do no more... A trade founded in iniquity must be abolished... let the consequences be what they will.

Having seen all this you can choose to look the other way, but you can never say again, 'I did not know.