State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“So I'd been captured? So I was starving? Did that mean I had to shrivel up and die? I could still slither.… — Patrick Jennings Copy Share Image
C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“1. That he had approved himself to his own conscience, verse 12: “For our own rejoicing is this, the testimony of our… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted. — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either. Money loves people that have great work ethic. — Grant Cardone Copy Share Image
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers. — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. — Paul Tillich 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
We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“The task of the moral philosopher-thinker is to support and strengthen the voice of human conscience, to recognize what is good or… — Erich Fromm 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
“The Kingsford–Maitland view of Christianity appealed to Gandhi because it asked not for exaltation of a personal Saviour, but fidelity to one’s… — Ramachandra Guha Copy Share Image
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
“The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten.” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
First word [of my father] when I arrived [as a CEO] is, 'Son, i hope your first deal is a loser, otherwise,… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“A conscience is easier to swallow on an empty belly, simpler to swing with a broken wrist” — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image