Ethics Quotes · Page 42

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. ..

— Anonymous

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

— Harold Coffin

A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

— Peter Ustinov

If one's conscience be dead as a stone, it is as heavy too.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

— Martha Stout

“Serikali inayodhulumu wananchi wake ni hatari kuliko simba.”

— Enock Maregesi

Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process.

— Arnold Horshak

Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Morality does not come to this mortal world from some imaginary paradise. It rises from the neurons of mortal humans.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

— William Godwin

“All good people read good books. Now your conscience is clear. - Twist In My Sobriety - Song Lyrics”

— Tanita Tikaram

“Some people were born unsupplied with a human conscience and those people needed killing.”

— Paulette Jiles

If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

— David Lloyd George

What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now…

— Anonymous

“...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...”

— John Geddes

Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this…

— Etgar Keret

Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“The cure for toxic leadership in governance isn’t just better policies; it’s fostering a culture where ethics, accountability, and inclusion are non-negotiable.”

— Abhysheq Shukla

The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; /…

— Alice Cary

Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the…

— Albert Schweitzer

And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and…

— Aberjhani

We saw his [Donald Trump] children appointed this week to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics experts looking at…

— George Stephanopoulos

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. .…

— Susan B. Anthony

“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves…

— Hal Herzog

Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability…

— Nomy Arpaly

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.…

— Margaret Halsey

Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out…

— Rajneesh

Most parents would not hesitate to assume responsibility for their child's behavior on a playground, at school, or in someone else's home.…

— Rachel Simmons

“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between…

— Allen W. Wood

Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material…

— David Shi

In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than…

— Bertrand Russell

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work.

— Andrew Carnegie

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

— John Henry Newman

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

— Anonymous

Economics and ethics have little in common.

— Agnes Repplier

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

— Laurence Sterne

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

— Samuel Johnson

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

— Mahatma Gandhi