Ethics Quotes · Page 59

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

— Rachel Carson

All human beings - not merely neuro-typicals - need to be seen in ethics in the light of a conception of what…

— Alice Crary

Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.

— Wes Fesler

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

— Henry Paulson

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

— Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on…

— Pema Chodron

“Your conscience is revelation to you as surely as if the Lord sent an angel to your bedroom with a flaming sword.”

— John M. Pontius

You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded,…

— Desiderius Erasmus

“I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any…

— Albert Einstein

“The propensity of Americans, evangelicals among them, to replace decisions of conscience with unthinking, pragmatic choices—especially when health is at stake—may have…

— Candy Gunther Brown

Sudan replaced the U.S. on the U.N. Human Rights Commission joining Syria, and Cuba. So now, the commission members have no interest…

— Argus Hamilton

“Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go…

— Väinö Linna

Happiness, then, is co-extensive with contemplation, and the more people contemplate, the happier they are; not incidentally, but in virtue of their…

— Aristotle

I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more…

— Joel Edgerton

A clear conscience is absolutely essential for distinguishing between the voice of God and the voice of the enemy. Unconfessed sin is…

— Winkie Pratney

“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without…

— Frederick Lewis Donaldson

…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing…

— Yukio Mishima

The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for…

— Albert Schweitzer

God is the creator of all things, right? He is the force that dictates the laws of the universe, and is therefore…

— Brandon Sanderson

A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the…

— Ellen Key

Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims…

— Michael Ruse

The axioms of physics translate the laws of ethics. Thus, "the whole is greater than its part;" "reaction is equal to action;"…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the…

— Antonin Scalia

Never cut your conscience just to make people happy, cause you wont be able to do it everytime, so stop than and…

— Senoraroy

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

— Charles Baudelaire

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

— Henry David Thoreau

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.

— Emile Durkheim

I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.

— Enda Kenny

I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

— Michel de Montaigne

The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning…

— Baruch Spinoza

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

— Norman Schwarzkopf

“Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook