When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
“What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“The co-called moral compass is a part of the human cognition, and when that compass comes into action through human behavior, it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having… — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Copy Share Image
When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and always, in… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Now, I’m not saying that we don’t need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“Altruism, compassion, empathy, love, conscience, the sense of justice—all of these things, the things that hold society together, the things that allow… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience.… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
All the world's major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness can and do promote inner values. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it’s in shape.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me… — Hank Williams III Copy Share Image
One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will sleep in… — Sinead O'Conner Copy Share Image
“For our society to be better, we must revive our conscience and do Godly things.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
I have a conscience about my work and try to turn out a good piece of craftsmanship. — Catherine Gaskin Copy Share Image
Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You play with a pure heart and a clear conscience and a clear soul, then good things happen. — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
“Integrity is never given. It is a quality that can only be proven over time.” — Gary Hopkins Copy Share Image
One who lacks transparency becomes victim of biting of his own self conscience. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
