I have an ethics background. It doesn't mean you're perfect. But I tried to set an entirely different bar for politics in… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
The Court is making the preposterous assumption that the People of the United States somehow silently redefined marriage in 1868 when they… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens - citizens… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are… — Graeme Samuel Copy Share Image
Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Campaign finance and ethics reform only works if it curtails all special interest groups equally and does not carve out any exceptions… — Thomas Kean, Jr Copy Share Image
While our managers debated what steps to take to address the sales and cash-flow crisis, I began to lead week-long employee seminars… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
In battle, combatants engaged in war against America get no due process and may lawfully be killed. But citizens not in a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
God has formed us moral agents... that we may promote the happiness of those with whom He has placed us in society,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One should not treat investors or a person who has set up an industry and is a successful businessman as criminals in… — Sharad Pawar Copy Share Image
When any institution becomes large and compartmentalized, with departments and subdepartments, then the conscience of the institution will often become so fragmented… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilisation than other creatures, and at the same time live by… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit… — Donald Berwick Copy Share Image
“He [Spike] has already demonstrated a capacity to love, already demonstrated a capacity to be selfless, and, possibly most importantly, has demonstrated… — Jim Ford Copy Share Image
There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A surprising percentage of your own society, with all your heritage of murder, would like to believe that Life survives by going… — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part… — Larry J. McKinney Copy Share Image
An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The "Tell the truth!"… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I think that Google has definitely influenced my moral values and the ethics. I think when Larry Page started the company, they… — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
I admire the military. I guess in a world of villains and heroes, they're my heroes. Their dedication, their commitment, their discipline,… — John Cena Copy Share Image
There is a peak and valley to careers and that includes fame. If you are lucky to ride this wave of fame… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point… — Kenneth Tynan Copy Share Image
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“As you know I am not of Barsoom; your ways are not my ways, and I can only act in the future… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws… — John Goodwin Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Here’s the way to destroy your life in sixty seconds or less; convince yourself that something is ‘right’ simply because you want… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I always had a bad conscience whenever vehicles had to stop because of me, a kind of imbalance arose, I felt as… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image