“How many dead bodies does it take for an assassin to grow a conscience?” — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience. — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible. — Franz Kafka 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
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
When you forgive people who don't deserve your forgiveness, you leave them in conflict with their conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route… — Robert Bolt Copy Share Image
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
“The therapist, after a deeply upsetting investigation of normality at this time and place, was bound to conclude that a normal person,… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“To be fully awake is a choice to face the stark realities that we would much prefer to avoid. And it is… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like… — Robert Kraft Copy Share Image
Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very… — Lemar Copy Share Image
Whenever I ask Siri for directions or a recommendation, I also ask her a trick question. Her answers are usually wacky. She… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
“Finding a new ethics or esthetics, as Dr. Douglass asks, will not put us in a state of grace. Existence is not… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
People ask, 'Is the science going to run ahead of the ethics?' I don't think that's always the problem. I think it's… — Arthur Caplan Copy Share Image
I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
We hear a lot of talk these days about teaching values in higher education. Frankly, I am not sure this can be… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
“Rare are the principles that drive us to stand even when we realize that we will likely perish in the standing. And… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
“Desert are you, deluge are you, in a crowd of fakes, only truth is you.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image
