I think I was the healthiest prisoner of conscience in the world. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“When conscience is immobilised, public trust has disappeared. At that point, by default, institutions become omnipotent.” — Raymond Dirks Copy Share Image
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did.” — Beck Sherman Copy Share Image
In the majority of cases, conscience is an elastic and very flexible article — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
An ethic gone wrong is an essential preliminary to the sweat shop or the concentration camp and the death march. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“You almost feel dirty for reading [Gillian Flynn's] books, like you've been forced to join your conscience with those of her morally… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
I just had such a lucky experience working with incredible actors, getting to see their work ethics, their different techniques... Jeff Bridges… — Cailee Spaeny Copy Share Image
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which… — Robert South Copy Share Image
I have learned that the ethics of the so-called markets can be different from what we learn at school. In day-to-day life… — Jorge Paulo Lemann Copy Share Image
I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
That's right. Obama didn't lie to you when he said, 'if you like your plan, you can keep it.' Why? Because, you… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“In earlier times, one had an easier conscience about being a person than one does today. People were like cornstalks in a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
The more abstractly correct and hence powerful this idea will be, the more impossible remains its complete fulfillment as long as it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It's true that to speak of an ethic of giftedness, which is very much the ethic that I deploy in raising questions… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Russ Shafer-Landau Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
It’s a revolution. But it’s the sort of revolution that no one will notice. It might get a little shadier. Buildings might… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image