Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I begin with human psychology and then see what we can say about ethics. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the… — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world. — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“I stand in philosophy exactly where I stand in daily life; I should not be honest otherwise.” — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure… — John Cotton Copy Share Image
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
“That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do,… — John Keble Copy Share Image
... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most… — Ezra Levant Copy Share Image
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest,… — John Perry Barlow Copy Share Image
Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“... primitive times had required primitive obedience, that later generations evolved to the point where parents offered themselves as sacrifice - as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“The point of the term “suffering-focused ethics” is ... not to be a novel or impressive contribution to ethical theorizing, but instead… — Magnus Vinding Copy Share Image
In sum, all actions and habits are to be esteemed good or evil by their causes and usefulness in reference to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Since I was a small girl, I have lived inside this cottage, shelted by its roof and walls. I have known of… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace… — Glenn R. Schiraldi Copy Share Image
I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
