Lucy Stone Quotes

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Morality will perform all this; and Morality is the fruit of Illumination.

No human being or society ... ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal

Justice and good will outlast passion.

No social system, however, elevates "Goodness" to a deciding principle, whether the realm be art, politics, or economics.

Civilization depends on morality.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Thus you are just not because you give what is owed, but because you do what is appropriate to you as the highest good.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.