if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of…

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

— Denis Waitley

“Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.”

— Rabelaise

He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

— Theognis of Megara

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

— Martin Firrell

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

— Albert Schweitzer

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

— Syd

Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

— Izaak Walton

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

— Guy de Rothschild

“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

— Elbert Hubbard

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we…

— Alan Dershowitz

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

— Roger Spottiswoode

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess.

— Anonymous

Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling.

— Valdemar W Setzer

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect.

— Woody Hayes