Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“When you believe that you are the only path to progress, the choice is easy to make. And when they make that… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
“Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real… — C.S. Lewis 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
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“And sometimes, no, oftentimes, we allow those mistakes to keep us from God. Our guilty conscience becomes a curtain that separates us… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Furthermore, as long as the world shall last, there will always be people who, either for the sake of peace or from… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“There are nights and days that you feel vulnerable, abused by life and delicate in heart but the fact that you feel… — Jose E. de Alvare Copy Share Image
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“You almost feel dirty for reading [Gillian Flynn's] books, like you've been forced to join your conscience with those of her morally… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
I just had such a lucky experience working with incredible actors, getting to see their work ethics, their different techniques... Jeff Bridges… — Cailee Spaeny 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
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
“One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than about our 'good'. For previous… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and… — William James Copy Share Image
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
“It shows something, though: if you're going to be soulless, you should at least consider outsourcing your conscience to someone else.” — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. — Robert Casey Copy Share Image
“You think you're superior to the others, don't you? We'll you're not. In fact you're worse for mistaking basic human decency for… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy. — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“But I didn’t know that then. I washed my hands in the cold, uncaring sea, and my conscience was as silent and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought,” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill… — Robert Girardi Copy Share Image
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