I maintain the importance of an absolute prohibition against torture, while acknowledging that even absolute prohibitions can sometimes be broken. If that… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Under the ethics rules that apply to lawyers, an attorney has a duty to represent her clients zealously, which includes refraining from… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
“I always had a bad conscience whenever vehicles had to stop because of me, a kind of imbalance arose, I felt as… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything. — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“Public relations, as with all forms of branding and marketing is manipulation. This is why you have to have a firm ethic… — Isaac Mashman Copy Share Image
In Scientology, in the Ethics Conditions, as you go down from Normal through Doubt, then you get to Enemy, and, finally, near… — Paul Haggis Copy Share Image
We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“Conscience is that still, small voice that yells so loud the morning after.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson” — Kathleen Long Copy Share Image
I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The experience of a sense of guilt for wrong-doing is necessary for the development of self-control. The guilt feelings will laterserve as… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most popular decisions come from the majority but the best decisions always come from the conscience. The best leader is one… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“In this world, we walk beneath a sun that has spots on it, and we do so with no conflict of conscience… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know… — Miguel Copy Share Image
The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
In our efforts to get human beings empirically into focus in ethics, we have a standing obligation not only to revisit and,… — Alice Crary Copy Share Image
Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The unstated premise that nature is nice lies behind many of the objections to the Darwinian theory of human sexuality. Carefree sex… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years ago, a business manager from the United States came to Plum Village to visit me. His conscience was troubled because… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
An enlightened society is one where all people - the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and… — Pandurang Shastri Athavale Copy Share Image
You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
