Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
It is the business of the teacher ... to fortify reason and to make conscience sovereign. — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Doing the right thing doesn't always bring success. But compromising ethics almost always leads to failure. — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
We over-estimate the conscience of our friend. His goodness seems better than our goodness, his nature finer, his temptations less. Everything that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Because of the matrix of rampant horrors often described as overcriminalization, it is no longer possible for you to rely on your… — James Duane Copy Share Image
My ethics are basically around animals. I cannot do animals in distress. I was able to shut myself off with humans, and… — Harry Benson Copy Share Image
Conscience, the organ of feeling which dominates us and of the opinions which rule us, is presumptuous in the strong, timid in… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When I first did 'Empire,' it was a severe break from everything I'd written up to that point, which is all very… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I'll make them according to what I believe… — Leo Varadkar Copy Share Image
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
“I use “anticapitalist” because conservative defenders of capitalism regularly say their liberal and socialist opponents are against capitalism. They say efforts to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“In literature one has the best company in the world at complete command; one also has the worst. One has a social… — Albert Jay Nock Copy Share Image
“In that ugly building, amidst that weary praying and inharmonious singing, with that blatant tone, and, worse than all, that merciless doctrine,… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food systems have any righteous ground to… — Brian Awehali Copy Share Image
The overriding need is "to develop a new Planetary Humanism" that will seek to preserve human rights and enhance human freedom and… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Seek not that your sons and your daughters should not see visions, should not dream dreams; seek that they should see true… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Innate goodness? Maybe the voice of conscience, or it could be something inside such a man that was stronger than any compulsion.” — Remington Kane Copy Share Image
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can… — Martin Luther 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
“Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn't make the… — Kavita Kane Copy Share Image
The well of public opinion has been well and truly poisoned by the Iraq episode. — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
“the town believed that good women dont forget things easily, good or bad, lest the taste and savor of forgiveness die from… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
I say I don't believe in love, but that's not really true - love is just the name of an emotion. It's… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
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