“It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse. — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. — John Francis Dodge Copy Share Image
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit… — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
“It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The "Tell the truth!"… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
But the question is, do we care enough? Do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We are not called on to believe this or that doctrine which may be proposed to us till we can do so… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“I recently read in the Wall Street Journal an article by Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s chief rabbi. Among other things, he writes: …… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them; manner… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.” — Simon du Plock Copy Share Image
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Christians do not restrict their moral horizons to immediate results; they make their ethical decisions from an eternal perspective (p. 52).” — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.” — Elizabeth Chadwick Copy Share Image
“Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it… — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
Ethics knows no party. Those rules should be applied the same in a Republican administration and a Democratic administration. — Richard Painter Copy Share Image
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Evil is never done so thoroughly or so well as when it is done with a good conscience.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America… — Eric Schmidt Copy Share Image
“pseudospeciation, the reduction of alien societies to the status of inferior species, not fully human, who can be degraded without conscience. Even” — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way. — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image