He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I… — Charles Sheffield Copy Share Image
I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I wondered when exactly I had exchanged my conscience for fearful obedience.” — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. — William Goffe Copy Share Image
My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got… — Jakob Dylan Copy Share Image
The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience. — John Dickey Copy Share Image
A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son. — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality. — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To be more precise, it's ethics and liberation, and as a consequence there is an ethics of liberation. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“The tombstone over the grave of the conscience always reads: "Human Nature".” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“Ethics is [...] the philosophic branch of inquiry which talks about right and wrong, which talks about our moral obligations, which inquires… — Michael Surge Copy Share Image
I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I think that purity creates not only a higher level of artistic vision but a purer work ethic. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
