What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm? — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
In ethics, prudence is not an important virtue, but in the world it is almost everything. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization. — Robert Noyce Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown. — William Henry Harrison Copy Share Image
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The United Nations is our conscience. If it succeeds it is our success. If it fails it is our failure. — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
“If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is someone who promotes moral excellence, argues for moral excellence, and gets other people to behave morally and excellently based… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
There is no social entity with a good that undergoes some sacrifice for its own good. There are only individual people, different… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Ethically, I think pretty much every code of ethics for doctors suggests that they should not be in an interrogation room, particularly… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals.… — Venugopal Gupta Copy Share Image
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
“High Europe always played at ethnic contempt because it was High Europe, and so had the strength, the authority, to make the… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
“Due to some dim but irresistible notion of the way things are, it is simply not possible, out of order, not apprpriate… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we shouldn't be displeased with the 'environmental ethics' we have or the 'business ethics' or the 'political ethics' or any of… — Thomas King Copy Share Image
In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For 500 years the West patented six killer applications that set it apart. The first to download them was Japan. Over the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“There is a violent contrast here, in this country, between the growing abstractness of a unclear universe and a primary, visceral, unbounded… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep… — John Milton Copy Share Image
God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“If somebody asks me what enlightenment is, I say that it is simply recovering conscience.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“if [God] doesn't exist, man is the chief of the earth, of the universe. Magnificent! Only how is he going to be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We try to do music with a conscience. We'd never look back and say, 'We are embarrassed or ashamed.' It paid off… — Philip Bailey Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience . — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Ethics is not about the way things are, it's about the way they ought to be.” — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. — Max Born Copy Share Image