There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of… — William Langland Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Can we be sure that they are incapable of the feelings or sentiments that are believed to place them on a lower… — William Longgood Copy Share Image
I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
“Hamlet misspoke, Strawl decided. It is consciousness that makes cowards of us all, not conscience. Right and wrong are venomless when compared… — Bruce Holbert Copy Share Image
I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically… — David Petersen Copy Share Image
Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Because I am self-aware, because I have imagination and conscience, I can examine my deepest values. I can realize that the script… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time? — Lauren Zalaznick Copy Share Image
We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
A big reason why we were able to and have been able to continue to succeed is that we had a very… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind". — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
The advantages of having decisions made by groups are often lost because of powerful psychological pressures that arise when the members work… — Irving Janis 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
I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Islamic ethics is based on 'limits and proportions,' which means that the answer to an offensive cartoon is a cartoon, not the… — Amir Taheri Copy Share Image
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification — William Blake 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
The ruling ideology prefers to talk about individual ethics rather than the capitalist system. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Allies never trust each other, but that doesn't spoil their effectiveness. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which… — Robert South Copy Share Image
“...but since I realised that peace and freedom were unattainable on earth, my spirit aspired aloft, and everything that my chosen path… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
