Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven. — Margherita Hack Copy Share Image
GamerGate-promoted outlets fail at grown-up journalistic ethics, and they also fail at the cheap knockoff brand of GamerGate brand ethics, too. — Zoe Quinn Copy Share Image
I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
“I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of innoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I think Congress has spent enough time on ethics. I think it's time they moved on to something else. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
“An insincere individual would feel afraid to admit the truth because he or she wants to avoid facing the consequences with a… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
“Most of us care about one another. Human beings have considerably more in common with one another than they do differences. One’s… — Jon Huntsman Copy Share Image
If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me,… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“I am not well-versed in theory, but in my view, the cow deserves her life. As does the ram. As does the… — Vincent J. Guihan Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A great lawyer listens first, speaks second, and always thinks strategically." "Effective lawyering is less about winning arguments and more about crafting… — Vorng Panha Copy Share Image
“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But,… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
If Ibsen's 'Enemy of the People' were alive today, he would recognize the ethic that has informed capitalist and communist countries alike… — Susannah York Copy Share Image
“We can distinguish the good from evil because we have a moral sense bred into us. This is what Paul meant when… — Charles W. Colson Copy Share Image
A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore. — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive… — Bob Lutz Copy Share Image
“Each mind conceives god in its own way. There may be as many variation of the god figure as there are people… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“From the writer of "Age of Armageddon: The Spirit of Krynn" Once one feels justified, one is often bereft of conscience.” — Ryan Tyler Palmer Copy Share Image
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion. — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
“When we perform at our highest level of potential, we are content. Because we have given I best in what we enjoy… — Ellen J. Barrier Copy Share Image
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought. — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“We have an obligation to help those in absolute poverty that is no less strong than our obligation to rescue a drowning… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“A man who would agree to betray his own conscience for the sake of a mitre, might well also steal and betray.” — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
