Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Christians do not restrict their moral horizons to immediate results; they make their ethical decisions from an eternal perspective (p. 52).” — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Modern civilisation does not generate an ethical framework for human life.” — Simon du Plock Copy Share Image
“Evil is never done so thoroughly or so well as when it is done with a good conscience.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Duty and conscience were, for Theodora, attributes which belonged properly to Girl Scouts.” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals; this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If I am to serve as an instrument of deceit, at least let it be with a clear conscience. I do not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
The more moral the people are in their business dealings, the less paperwork you need, the more handshakes you can have, the… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“I have always believed that a trademark is the life of an enterprise and that it must be protected boldly. A trademark… — Akio Morita Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Our Blessed Lord left the world without leaving any written message. His doctrine was Himself. Ideal and History were identified in Him.… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In contemporary society secular humanism has been singled out by critics and proponents alike as a position sharply distinguishable from any religious… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
