In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
“His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill… — Robert Girardi Copy Share Image
All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other. — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought,” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But I didn’t know that then. I washed my hands in the cold, uncaring sea, and my conscience was as silent and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil… — J. C. Ryle 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
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
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
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
There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land,… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Some people awake each morning dreading the day looking for the negatives in their lives and in others, while some awaken fresh… — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
“Every man is bound to answer these questions to himself, according to the best of his conscience and understanding, and to act… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“It is not our conscience that torments us over our image; that is our ego tormenting us. Our conscience torments us when… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“What other agents then are there, which, at the same time that they are under the influence of man's direction, are susceptible… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“... if we adopt the principle of universality: if an action is right (or wrong) for others, it is right (or wrong)… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“When you believe that you are the only path to progress, the choice is easy to make. And when they make that… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy. — Amanda Holden Copy Share Image
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It shows something, though: if you're going to be soulless, you should at least consider outsourcing your conscience to someone else.” — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and… — William James Copy Share Image
“if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image