The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the… — Ayn Rand 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
From an athlete's perspective, to cancel the Olympics in regards to the threats would be absolutely devastating - especially since the Olympics… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought. — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
“ACT24.16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void to offence toward God, and toward men.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“Megan’s deception is another hook on which I can hang my conscience.” — Jenny Lloyd Copy Share Image
We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“It’s not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into… — Jennifer A. Doudna Copy Share Image
The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.” — John Stott Copy Share Image