Ethics Quotes · Page 60

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

— George Bernard Shaw

Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a…

— Albert Schweitzer

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we…

— Billy Graham

A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the…

— Thomas Nagel

“Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read.…

— David Eddings

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

— Hillary Clinton

What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more…

— Alexander Pope

Expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of…

— Henry Beston

I think in the end officials in each country's judicial system will do what they believe is right because if they do…

— Bernie Ecclestone

“I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing the right and didn't feel uncomfortable…

— Louisa May Alcott

I'm so sick and tired of all this violence, this gun violence. And how could I speak on it - you know…

— Snoop Dogg

Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates…

— Jeremy Collier

“As a citizen of the world, I stand only with Truth and my conscience is my only leader. This is the only…

— Suzy Kassem

I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after…

— Jeff Fortenberry

When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness,…

— James W. Sire

Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that…

— Robert Greene

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world…

— Paulo Freire

One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the…

— Noam Chomsky

Nothing will serve you better than a strong work ethic. Nothing. And it's something that you can't teach. You have to be…

— Robert Downey, Jr

“Ethical actions can often entail short-term pain, but will always result in long-term gains. By contrast, unethical actions frequently have short-term gains,…

— Kashonia Carnegie PhD

“The more I allow myself to face that truth about my participation in a violent world, the more my faith and my…

— Mary Jo Bowman

Everybody who is created comes into the world with a sense of right and wrong. That is the law written in the…

— John Macarthur

I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so…

— James Patterson

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

— Aristotle

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

— John Bunyan

The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means…

— Saul Alinsky

He was both [television's] first celebrity and its most persistent conscience.

— Harry F Waters

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or…

— Ogden Nash

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

Unfortunately, some politicians think they are immune from allegations of ethics abuse.

— Bob Beckel

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending…

— Bertrand Russell

It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin…

— Anonymous

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

— John Harold

“There are certain signs of a guilty conscience that do not take a great surplus of intuition to spot.”

— L.H. Thomson

I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to…

— Victoria Beckham

The conscience is eternal and never dies. Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.

— Martin Luther