“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.” — Martin Cohen Copy Share Image
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
The Conscience Protection Act would ensure no one is coerced to participate in abortions or to provide abortion coverage. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
People who don't have a conscience, who have no problem doing terrible things to other people, that's scary. — Leslie Grossman Copy Share Image
“An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of… — Blanche Lincoln Copy Share Image
Since when do grown men and women, who presume to hold high government office and exercise what they think of as "moral… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
It was a life with purpose. And it was also a lot of fun. Fishing is fun. Hiking up mountains is fun.… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subset of ethics dealing with… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“You & I, the moneyed, the privileged, the fortunate, shall not fare so badly in this world, provided our luck holds. What… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A man who denies his heart, either through fear of personal consequence—whether regarding physical jeopardy, or self-doubt, or simply of being ostracized—is… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Violation of the Moral Code as a Basis for Assigning Blame But in spite of all possible points of view everyone will… — Dr. Karin Huffer M.F.T Copy Share Image
The process is really what you have to do day in and day out to be successful, we try to define the… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
“First of all, the people has a right to passive resistance. The tyrannical law that is a law against reason, a law… — Heinrich A. Rommen Copy Share Image
“The word conscience covers as a matter of fact several different feelings; the simplest of these is the fear of being found… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The moral conscience that so many thoughtless people have offended against and many more have rejected, is something that exists and has… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“You could be acquitted at the bar of the court but not at the bar of your conscience.” — James C. Uwandu Copy Share Image
We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.” — John Stott Copy Share Image
Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine. — Daniel Cormier Copy Share Image
The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The world would be a lot better if people paid as much attention to their conscience as they do to their neighbours… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.” — John Brunner Copy Share Image
What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition. — Jules Simon Copy Share Image
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity,… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
God desires from you the least degree of purity of conscience more than all the works you can perform. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
