Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Day and Night The night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“If I must serve under a tyrant, than my words will serve the oppressed. My conscience will be in rebellion against the… — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
“What separates people who made their dreams come true is not setting goals to achieve a life the way they expect it… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions…… — Roger Etchegaray Copy Share Image
My father wanted to instill the work ethic. And, because he knew if you don't learn to work to be more productive… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go… — George F. R. Ellis Copy Share Image
As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Christian ethics makes sense of human life from a moral perspective, presenting us with a vision of what it means to be… — Andrew Davison Copy Share Image
Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
“In fact, the Nazis did not have a euthanasia program, in the proper sense of the word. Their so-called euthanasia program was… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Linh said, “Thank you for this valuable information, it gives us an opportunity to take counter-measures to nullify the American attack!… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
Beyoncé says it was Mathew Knowles, her father, who made her understand discipline and work ethic, what it means to come in… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
“I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement. — Fausto Cercignani Copy Share Image
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
“Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience? — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
