Religion is no more national than conscience. — Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt. — Horace Copy Share Image
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example. — Edward F. Hennessey Copy Share Image
We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics,… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado Copy Share Image
We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
If you deny that any principles of conduct at all are common to and admitted by all men who try to behave… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
“It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“There is a violent contrast here, in this country, between the growing abstractness of a unclear universe and a primary, visceral, unbounded… — Anonymous 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 end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that,… — Erin Cummings Copy Share Image
“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image