“Too often our standard is less an adherence to a standard and more the elimination of one.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition. — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work… — Rebel Wilson Copy Share Image
OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers... have not understood information. What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better… — Vilém Flusser Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Such times of crisis have inevitably brought 'music of conscience' to the fore and I expect we will be hearing more and… — Peter Yarrow Copy Share Image
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The ethics of excellence requires a sense of perspective. Look at the big picture. If you live for the moment you might… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
In the best of circumstances, the Trump family business and questions about conflicts will be a burden to his presidency. There is… — Tom Fitton 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… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education,… — Archibald Alexander Hodge Copy Share Image
It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.1 Cor. 10: 29-31 [v.29]…Well, then, someone asks , why should my freedom… — Silniña Silma Copy Share Image
“It was Daisuke's conviction that all morality traced its origins to social realities. He believed there could be no greater confusion of… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“One can say that Javert is our conscience. The ever lurking presence of the law and our own condemnation. The tension between… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image