Ethics Quotes · Page 78

My mind makes the choice, my conscience is the voice, it's my souls job to measure and my body gets the pleasure!

— Desmond Fouche

“An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.”

— Jean Vanier

Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a…

— Richelle Mead

“Conscience is the endowment that senses our congruence or disparity with correct principles and lifts us toward them—when it’s in shape.”

— Stephen R. Covey

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

— Franz Kafka

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

— Francois Rabelais

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and…

— Sydney J. Harris

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

— Walter Savage Landor

There are seven things that will destroy us, Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Religion without sacrifice, Politics without…

— Anonymous

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear conscience will overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to…

— Grover Cleveland

State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the…

— Thomas Jefferson

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that…

— Adam Smith

While security of national leadership is of paramount significance, expenditure on permanent civil structures at the family home of the prime minister…

— Shehbaz Sharif

“My question is, how and why would a being who has no soul, and no conscience, and no ability to judge between…

— Jim Ford

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin…

— Francis Schaeffer

“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law,…

— Henry David Thoreau

... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and…

— Aristotle

At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that…

— Eric Liu

When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be…

— Eugene Odum

“I know that market value is a repulsive accounting of somebody’s worth, and many of us would be unable to put a…

— Jessica Pierce

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.…

— Oscar Wilde

Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't.…

— Jean Ferris

Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

“What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you forgive people who don't deserve your forgiveness, you leave them in conflict with their conscience.

— Anonymous

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

— St. Jerome

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route…

— Robert Bolt

Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.

— Roger Williams

Balance is always tough with the kind of shows and my work ethic and all of that, but that definitely helps me…

— Hank Williams III

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

— Saul Alinsky

To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation.

— Tariq Ramadan

We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

— Carl von Ossietzky

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

— Daniel Dennett

Ethics is not routinely taught to science students except in medicine, and I think it should be.

— Robert Winston

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

— Anonymous

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do?…

— Richard Stallman

For those who are always courteous and respectful of elders, four things increase: life, beauty, happiness and strength.

— Gautama Buddha

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

— Frank Herbert