Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. — Melvin Laird Copy Share Image
The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life. — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term ‘hero’… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd have to give you-a former Sunday School teacher-a lecture on ethics." "Former Sunday School teachers don't go around… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding… — Dominique Pire Copy Share Image
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“The superstitious know how to reproach people for their vices better than they know how to teach them virtues, and they strive,… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, the authority, to make the… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we shouldn't be displeased with the 'environmental ethics' we have or the 'business ethics' or the 'political ethics' or any of… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
