Quotes About Ethics

sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

Ye shall kindle no fire—not even the fire of righteous indignation.

Right living is a way to right thinking.

It is in deeds that man becomes aware of what his life really is

Yet our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but rather how to remain human in the skyscrapers. NOTES 1 Portions of this section are based on Heschel, Man Is Not Alone (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1951).

That equality is a good thing, a fine goal, may be generally accepted. What is lacking is a sense of the monstrosity of inequality .

Above all it never ceases to proclaim that worship of God without justice to man is an abomination; that while man's problem is God, God's problem is man.

one should always do the good, even though it is not done for its own sake.

to the Bible the idea of the good is penultimate; it cannot exist without the holy. The holy is the essence, the good is its expression.

Freedom does not mean the right to live as we please. It means the power to live spiritually, to rise to a higher level of existence.

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

People who have no vices, have very few virtues.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.