Ethics Quotes · Page 54

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

— James Larkin

I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

— Bonnie Raitt

“Listen to your conscience. It has the power to burn you alive, without killing you.”

— Charles Samuel D'Monte

I've played many criminals, but I loved playing somebody on the right side of the law who had a family and who…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“I want to burden the conscience of the affluent with all the suffering and all the hidden, bitter tears.”

— Rosa Luxemburg

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

— Richard J. Needham

“I wish my conscience would come alive during the day, when the distractions of daytime life help obscure those sharp, prodding thoughts.”

— Sara J. Henry

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it…

— Alan Dershowitz

People spend all their time focused on things they can't control. In truth, there are only two things you can control: your…

— John Addison

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea…

— Charles Van Doren

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same. It's just that you…

— Robert Pattinson

The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for…

— Adolf Eichmann

Truth is felt in the heart. This is why your heart should always be your ultimate temple. Sitting inside on a blue…

— Suzy Kassem

Every thought felt as true or allowed to be accepted as true by your conscience mind takes root in your subconscious, blossoms…

— Funkadelic

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the…

— David Riesman

War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither…

— Nellie L. McClung

“And what we say - that what He willeth is right and what He doth not not will is wrong, is not…

— Anonymous

“...those impious epicures, libertines, atheists, hypocrites, infidels, worldly, secure, impenitent, unthankful, and carnal-minded men, that attribute all to natural causes, that will…

— Robert Burton

“Those who think that modern times are wickeder than previous times are apt to identify the cause as the weakening of a…

— A.C. Grayling

Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond…

— Robert D. Hare

“Given our obsession with self, it is hardly surprising we think it is fine for us to live in a world with…

— Stephen McAndrew

It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation…

— Roderick Haig-Brown

“Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the…

— Thomas Hobbes

The principles of ethics come from our own nature as social, reasoning beings.

— Peter Singer

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and…

— Martin Sheen

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics…

— Naomi Klein

There are really exercises in a kind of consumerist ethic that I think don't have the same moral weight as medicine or…

— Michael Sandel

The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience.

— Wes Fesler

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

— Melvin Laird

The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

— Carol Gilligan

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

— Woodrow Wilson

“I am a monk at heart - a scientist at brain - a philosopher at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with…

— Agatha Christie

Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

— Horace

Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive must set the example.

— Edward F. Hennessey

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

— Gary Oldman

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.

— Anonymous

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness.

— Eric Hoffer