A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies,… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
The conscience...is not infallible. Nor is it a source of revelation about right and wrong. Its role is not to teach you… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is… — Louise Slaughter Copy Share Image
It's because I work in ethics, and, more specifically, applied ethics, that I think it's important that if you have things to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“We have shouted aid to the world but no one has listened to us. Where is the Christian conscience? Where is human… — Ed West Copy Share Image
In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the… — Hyman Rickover Copy Share Image
As for the ethics, law, and politics relationship, there has always been a tension for me as I try to keep them… — John Kleinig Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“If someone with a high level of authority were to ask me, "Suzy, how can we make people so incredibly stupid and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I was educated by nuns. None of them, of course, did anything resembling the actions of Lydia from The Handmaid's Tale, but… — Ann Dowd Copy Share Image
God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Evolution, energy, and ethics are the core elements that will guide us along the challenging path toward the Life Era: the first… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
Some men don't gel when it comes to work - you have different work ethics, different opinions, different points of views, different… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“To admit that some people literally have no conscience is not technically the same as saying that some human beings are evil,… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work… — Irving Janis Copy Share Image
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls.… — Matthew Underwood Copy Share Image
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into… — Ezra Stiles 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
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
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
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when… — H. L. Mencken 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
It's a difficult thing to describe theology, what it means and how it disciplines thinking. Certainly, theology is the level at which… — Marilynne Robinson 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
Participant (Productions) is the only production company in town that has a double bottom line: social good plus financial returns. It's too… — Jeffrey Skoll Copy Share Image
If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; only… — Tiorio Copy Share Image
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty,… — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
Kant has been famous for his rejection of eudaimonism, but I think Kantian ethics has a great deal in common with Aristotle,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“I wanted to let my conscience go, and see how deep I fall. I wanted to let the devil take over, and… — Prashant Chopra Copy Share Image
I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
