“The history of cruelty inflicted in the name of morals has convinced me that the increase of identification might achieve what moralizing… — Arne Næss Copy Share Image
Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's… — Lino Rulli Copy Share Image
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I take no pleasure in seeing DeLay swing gently in the wind. But the thing I believe in the most is ethics.… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things.… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple… — Linda Fisher Thornton Copy Share Image
Let your conscience be better than you imagination. Your conscience is what enables you to move on in the direction you either… — Sessah-Odai Sadick Copy Share Image
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“For we conceive it as the aim of a philosopher, as such, to do somewhat more than define and formulate the common… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. On the contrary, its ethics… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Given the way some fought for the status quo when I authored the new Ethics Code and created the city's first Ethics… — Laura Miller Copy Share Image
Today we say all art is political. But I'd say all art has to do with ethics. Which after all really comes… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Even putting aside the Judeo-Christian morality upon which the Constitution and our nations culture are based, the notion of forced euthanasia would… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“She was certain of love. Beyond that? She wasn’t convinced of God’s existence, or even that it was an important question. Ethics… — Jill Shultz Copy Share Image
A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every artist, writers included, have an ethics and an aesthetics, whether they can formulate them or not. I happen to think that… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The ethical decision is always the fearsome decision. When something matters enough that we are afraid of the consequences - afraid that… — Henry W. Bloch Copy Share Image
Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
My dad, he would go through these periods of self-doubt. We'd do something that was controversial or that wasn't welcomed by everybody,… — John Wesley Shipp Copy Share Image
Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
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