What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I do not see why the axiom of Prudence should not be questioned, when it conflicts with present inclination, on a ground… — Henry Sidgwick Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Under the Obama regime, the president and his allies are intentional in pursuing these conflicts from the perspective that you must sacrifice… — Bobby Jindal Copy Share Image
Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Moral people are the most revengeful of mankind, they employ their morality as the best and most subtle weapon of vengeance. They… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
“Joy of Conscience (The Sonnet) Conscience brings joy, Conscience brings relief. It's a different kind of joy, sanctified by bouts of grief.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are… — James Allen Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
“ Frederick Douglass told in his Narrative how his condition as a slave became worse when his master underwent a religious conversion… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Love is too young to know what conscience is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a… — Alain Vigneault Copy Share Image
When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
A dreaded society is not a civilized society. The most progressive and powerful society in the civilized sense, is a society which… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
I suppose the most important thing, the heaviest single factor in one's life, is whether one's born male or female. In most… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even… — Samuel Park Copy Share Image
“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If the aim is globalization without marginalization, we can no longer tolerate a world in which there live side by side the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis argues that human beings cannot be truly good or moral without faith in God and without… — Phil Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“Why should I give up revenge? On behalf of what? Moral principles? And what of the higher order of things, in which… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Her phone rang again. “What?” she snapped as she answered it. Myrnin, of course. “Are you on your way?” “No!” “Claire, there… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“If you must give me a label, then label me a human being. I have no pride in being a human, though,… — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
“Morals and Ethics Values Express the manner in which the organization adopts universal values of morals, personal ethics and professional ethics. Social… — Shmaya David Copy Share Image
In trying to develop an impartial, expansive ethic we are trying to get ethical systems to do something which they did not… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics… — David Swing Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
“Love loves and in loving always looks beyond what it has in hand and possesses. The driving impulse [*Triebimpuls*] which arouses may… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image