“And it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time.” — St John Perse Copy Share Image
We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Conscience, Madam, requireth knowledge; and I fear that right knowledge ye have none. — John Knox Copy Share Image
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation. — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others,… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
What is frustrating is to have others question my motivation, my ethics, and my history. — Louise Linton Copy Share Image
“The world does produce enough to feed its inhabitants – in fact we waste vast quantities of grain and soybeans by feeding them… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
“If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“In the first place, it would efface from everybody’s conscience the distinction between justice and injustice. No society can exist unless the… — Frédéric Bastiat Copy Share Image
“When an individual is cooperative and altruistic, this reduces his advantage in competition to a comparable degree with other members but increases… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Miller believes, like many theists, that religion brings us beyond the bounds of materialism. (Ironically he insists on a material explanation [evolution]… — G.M. Jackson Copy Share Image
“[At the scene of a murder] The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters,… — Shirley Rousseau Murphy Copy Share Image
As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Christians believe that God created man, and humanists believe that man invented God. But whichever way you look at it, we're brothers… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Listen to your conscience. Let it guide you. It knows what is right.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that. — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image