The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do?… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
“For those who set out to clean the dirt of the world, the best broom is their own clean morals, because you… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
Corporate executives and business owners need to realize that there can be no compromise when it comes to ethics and that there… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and… — Aruna Roy Copy Share Image
If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics… — Roger Wolcott Sperry Copy Share Image
“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
A choice is the root of all morality. Without choice, one can have no moral code. In a vacuum bereft of alternatives,… — Dave Galanter Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
So let me put it thus: Hold on to your principles of morality and ethics, use your willpower to the limit, pay… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kant's description of most ethical duties reads more like a description of moral virtues and vices. Once we see this, we see… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“God not only saves us but He moves in us in the person of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit directs… — J. Bennett Collins Copy Share Image
I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no need of justifying yourself to others, until you can justify yourself to your own conscience. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we… — William Longgood Copy Share Image
“clear conscience is a prerequisite for contemplative practice. You cannot come to the altar when you are not right with your fellow… — Benjamin Riggs Copy Share Image
I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My mind makes the choice, my conscience is the voice, it's my souls job to measure and my body gets the pleasure! — Desmond Fouche Copy Share Image
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“6 I will maintain my innocence without wavering. My conscience is clear for as long as I live.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“Stories often project the best that humanity has to offer. If only we could live up to our stories.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.” — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
When you forgive people who don't deserve your forgiveness, you leave them in conflict with their conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
