Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“One can say that Javert is our conscience. The ever lurking presence of the law and our own condemnation. The tension between… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. West's numerous connections to the mind control network… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
This is an incredibly creative time. It is a difficult time. It is a disparaging time. A time of cultural and global… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
Staying chaste until marriage, a commandment of my faith, was one of the most difficult challenges of my young life. I had… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
“We must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence, to find that enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“Life was a struggle with ourselves more than with a spear-wielding Satan; that belief was a choice for our conscience always to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.” — Lawrence Nault Copy Share Image
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
