It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in… — Chris Shays Copy Share Image
The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the… — Justin Welby Copy Share Image
You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it.… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate… — Steve King Copy Share Image
We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven. — Margherita Hack Copy Share Image
No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. — Socrates Copy Share Image
“As a citizen of the world, I stand only with Truth, and my conscience is my only leader.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“A guilty man," said the priest, with a smile, "shudders at the rustling of the wind or the chattering of a stork's… — Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Copy Share Image
No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None. Here in America, the murder rate is three times what it is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Our creed [atheism] is indeed a queer creed. You others, Christians (and similar people), consider our ethics much inferior, indeed abominable. There… — Erwin Schrödinger Copy Share Image
Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness,… — James W. Sire Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty… — John Acton Copy Share Image
The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
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