Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
“Too often our standard is less an adherence to a standard and more the elimination of one.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably,… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“Don't mistake a desperate desire to salve your conscience for bravery,” — Catherine Jones Payne Copy Share Image
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“The accounts of rape, wife beating, forced childbearing, medical butchering, sex-motivated murder, forced prostitution, physical mutilation, sadistic psychological abuse, and other commonplaces… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it. (as quoted by Tony Judt) ” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of… — Leo Szilard Copy Share Image
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“My conscience, Sensei, tells me I cannot remain forever an artist of the floating world.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
PRICE, n. Value, plus a reasonable sum for the wear and tear of conscience in demanding it. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation. — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics. — Ernst Troeltsch Copy Share Image
Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We are at that very point in time when a 400-year-old age is dying and another is struggling to be born -… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
I've seen plenty of ballplayers way better than me, but they didn't have the work ethic. It comes down to how bad… — Marcus Giles Copy Share Image
“In that ugly building, amidst that weary praying and inharmonious singing, with that blatant tone, and, worse than all, that merciless doctrine,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
At times, it appears easy to sermonise on morality and ethics. But morality and ethics appear good only when applied to others,… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
