Ethics Quotes · Page 59

All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.

— David O. McKay

“I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.”

— Martin Luther

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

— John Oldham

When a man's conscience and the laws clash, it is his conscience that he must follow.

— Henry David Thoreau

There's no such thing as business ethics; there's just ethics. And ethics makes no concessions for the real or imagined necessities of…

— Michael Josephson

“If you do not act according to your conscience, you risk becoming complicit in the misery" -Jack”

— Bethany Hagen

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think …

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not…

— Cal Thomas

“Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the…

— Stefan Molyneux

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than…

— Henry David Thoreau

“To constantly edit our ethics in order to keep pace with our preferences is to edit ethics that don’t exist in order…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Thou knowest that these things which I say are true, and that I was never delighted in my own praise, for the…

— Boethius D. 524

“I’m glad your self-righteousness has given you some exercise, but you forget: we are not such a tidy, reasonable, and humane race.…

— Josiah Bancroft

Once you're looking for wisdom, you have to look at why things happen and why people behave how they do: you cannot,…

— Genesis P-Orridge

Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than…

— Karen Armstrong

“Worrying about what does not yet exist, is that a gesture of love or the worst kind of argument putting pressure on…

— Pascal Bruckner

Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of…

— Thane Rosenbaum

The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“I know that no one is my judge. I live according to my own conscience and value discernments which are governed by…

— Mishi McCoy

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the…

— Khalil Gibran

... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience…

— Adolfo Perez Esquivel

“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

Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked…

— Jim Butcher

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

— John Templeton

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

— Barun Sobti

“The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Sometimes I envy people with no conscience. To live with no better judgement and NOT care. Might be amazing ..

— Wale

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

— H. L. Mencken

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

— Helen Rowland

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Growing up poor taught me a lot. It instilled in me the ethics of hard work.

— Chieh Huang

Conscience, Madam, requireth knowledge; and I fear that right knowledge ye have none.

— John Knox

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

— Rose Macaulay

I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.

— Dalai Lama

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to…

— Rod Dreher

When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

— John Shimkus

Ethics and Equity are at the core of debate of climate change. Debate has to move from Climate Change to Climate Justice.

— Narendra Modi

At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others,…

— Jaggi Vasudev