Quotes About Ethics

Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.

There is not a single argument nor a single fact that can be offered in favour of flesh eating that cannot be offered, with equal strength, in favour of cannibalism.

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

I believe that everything in Nature aspires to the acme of strength, well-being, and happiness; and everything that deviates from this I call immoral.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

We all have to recognise - no matter how great our strength - that we must deny ourselves the licence to do always as we please.

Integrity gains strength by use.

All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

There is nothing that robs a righteous cause of its strength more than a millionaire's money.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.

Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

The future success of our nation depends on our ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices.

You must give and receive love only when doing so doesn't hurt others. That's the ethical path, and you should gain strength from walking it.

Her strength was in the integrity of her actions; she never compromised what she believed she ought to do.

True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength.