I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind". — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Ethics without virtue is an illusion. What is the highest purpose of ethics? It is to make a person good, that is… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“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
“If I must serve under a tyrant, than my words will serve the oppressed. My conscience will be in rebellion against the… — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely, utterly, and completely certain that God wouldn't be homophobic. I'd much rather go to hell - I really would much… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize… — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be… — C. E. M. Joad Copy Share Image
The unhappy theory of business ethics is this: you have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profit. Period. To do anything other than… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with Soul… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Every perfection in this life has some imperfection mixed with it and no learning of ours is without some darkness. Humble knowledge… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
When our laws tell people that what lies behind the thin wall of a women's abdomen during pregnancy is not a human… — Bob Dornan Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
“In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
