Ethics Quotes

I have a clear conscience.

— Wilhelm Canaris

“You can't buy a clean conscience.”

— Jodi Picoult

A clere conscience is a sure carde.

— John Lyly

“Fear nothing but your conscience.”

— Suzy Kassem

My conscience is clean.

— Nawaz Sharif

Six Ethics of life.

— ProudLesbian

I never practice; I always play.

— Wanda Landowska

I'm not much into rear window ethics.

— Alfred Hitchcock

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

— Victor Hugo

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

— Albert Einstein

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

— George Bernard Shaw

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

— William Whewell

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

May admirable people remain admirable and may I follow in their footsteps.

— Anonymous

“Listen to your conscience. It has the power to burn you alive, without killing you.”

— Charles Samuel D'Monte

I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“I want to burden the conscience of the affluent with all the suffering and all the hidden, bitter tears.”

— Rosa Luxemburg

“I wish my conscience would come alive during the day, when the distractions of daytime life help obscure those sharp, prodding thoughts.”

— Sara J. Henry

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

— Richard J. Needham

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it…

— Alan Dershowitz

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

— Peter Singer

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and…

— Martin Sheen

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But…

— Dalai Lama

The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all…

— Thomas Jefferson

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team.…

— John C. Maxwell

Epicureanism did inspire libertine culture in isolated sects, but Epicurus himself rejected an ethics of sensory indulgence, and he would have disowned…

— Catherine Wilson

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a…

— Stacy Keach

The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.

— Max Horkheimer

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had…

— David Suzuki

You have to get beyond blaming others . . . give up your excuses . . . stand responsible for what you…

— Price Pritchett

Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed…

— Vashti McCollum

There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or…

— Paul Martin

“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of…

— William Lane Craig

The true man of science will know nature better by his finer organization; he will smell, taste, see, hear, feel, better than…

— Henry David Thoreau

Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They…

— William J. Brennan

A big reason why we were able to and have been able to continue to succeed is that we had a very…

— Michael Showalter

We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no…

— Sidney Greenberg

The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break…

— Louise J. Kaplan