Ethics Quotes · Page 7

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

— Jim Carroll

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their…

— Kenny Smith

Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by…

— Emile Durkheim

Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

— Buchi Emecheta

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

— Confucius

[Washington, DC] feels like you're watching performance art. A lot of the time. I don't believe them, I don't believe what they…

— Kevin Spacey

Normativity, I believe, is very different from motivating force. Neither includes, or implies, the other. Other animals can be motivated by their…

— Derek Parfit

Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic…

— Dalai Lama

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have…

— Al Sharpton

“This idea (Taqwa)can be effectively conveyed by the term "conscience," if the object of conscience transcends it. This is why it is…

— Fazlur Rahman

There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will…

— Richard Alleine

Ethics are more important than laws.

— Wynton Marsalis

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

— Anonymous

“In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In the simple moral maxim the Marine Corps teaches — do the right thing, for the right reason — no exception exists…

— Josh Rushing

“I argued against the view that the only obligation we have to strangers is to avoid harming them; but even if we…

— Peter Singer

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

— S.C. Stephens

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

— Samora Machel

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.

— Albert Schweitzer

We're telling the story of 'Daredevil'. In this aspect, the storylines accentuate the sociopathic tendencies in her. The writers wanted to highlight…

— Elodie Yung

If I am a pure product of genetic, cultural, or class determination, I have no responsibility for my action in the world…

— Paulo Freire

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land…

— Lord Byron

If you come to me and say, 'Hey look I'm a racist,' or 'I discriminate against blacks,' or 'I don't like you…

— Magic Johnson

A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible.

— Thomas Nagel