Science cannot stop while ethics catches up. . . and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
. . . thething I am proudest of in my whole business life is that I do not take, that I never took in all my life, and never, never! will take, one single penny more than 6% on any loan or any contract.
Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.
Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.
Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their contemplation, because it is in itself precious. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
Character is ethics in action.
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.
When truth is divided, errors multiply.
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.