There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will… — Richard Alleine Copy Share Image
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“Doing the next "right thing" will always bring more genuine happiness than simply doing the next fun thing.” — John Bruna Copy Share Image
I strongly believe in work ethics and when certain people do not follow the procedures, I'd rather step back and weigh my… — Madhura Naik Copy Share Image
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the… — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“I always had a bad conscience whenever vehicles had to stop because of me, a kind of imbalance arose, I felt as… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control… — Jan Theuninck Copy Share Image
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions… — Thomas Kean, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
“The extraordinary value of the I Ching is that it reveals the secrets of dynamic natural law. Working with its changes opens… — Patricia E. West Copy Share Image
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense… — Amy Dacyczyn Copy Share Image
Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My work ethics have been the same whether it's in international cricket, first class, or even club cricket. — S. Sreesanth Copy Share Image
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world. — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. —Bertrand Russell” — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Every social ethic is doomed to failure if it is blind to personal responsibility" (The Ten Commandments, 10).” — J. Douma Copy Share Image
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I think leadership is more than just being able to cross the t's and dot the i's. It's about character and integrity… — Steve Largent Copy Share Image
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“ACT24.16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
