Ethics Quotes · Page 56

“In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice…

— Mark Twain

I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what…

— Sheryl Crow

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

— Ellen Glasgow

When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.

— Khalil Gibran

Everyone has an Inner conscience but it is alive for those who are alive for it.

— Senoraroy

Any time you give a man something he doesn't earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes…

— Woody Hayes

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

— Anonymous

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I…

— Giulio Andreotti

He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe…

— Henry David Thoreau

Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which…

— Kenneth Clark

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Ethics as formation, then, is the venture of speaking about the form of Christ taking form in our world neither abstractly nor…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our sensitivity to personal guilt is a fundamental trait of our humanness that distinguishes us from animals. To try to suppress the…

— John Macarthur

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God…

— Jeremy Taylor

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in…

— Oscar Wilde

Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak…

— Ron Davies

I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education,…

— Archibald Alexander Hodge

It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much…

— Leonard Sweet

The earth and everything in it belong to the Lord.1 Cor. 10: 29-31 [v.29]…Well, then, someone asks , why should my freedom…

— Silniña Silma

“It was Daisuke's conviction that all morality traced its origins to social realities. He believed there could be no greater confusion of…

— Natsume Sōseki

“One can say that Javert is our conscience. The ever lurking presence of the law and our own condemnation. The tension between…

— Cristiane Serruya

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak,…

— James Hillman

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by…

— Patrick Henry

Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

— John Calvin

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

— Corliss Lamont

“Too often our standard is less an adherence to a standard and more the elimination of one.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't…

— Brent Weeks

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

— Geraldine Jewsbury

I'm proud to be associated with the value system at Berkshire Hathaway; I think you'll make more money in the end with…

— Charlie Munger

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

— J. Budziszewski

We need a new system of values, a system of the organic unity between humankind and nature and the ethic of global…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work…

— Rebel Wilson

OATH, n. In law, a solemn appeal to the Deity, made binding upon the conscience by a penalty for perjury.

— Ambrose Bierce

I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience.

— Socrates

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

— Nelson Algren

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

— Anonymous

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our…

— Price Pritchett

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“May God bequeath everyone the gift of listening to the voice of their conscience!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan