Amnesty International adopted me as a prisoner of conscience, and that led to my - it touched me in a way that… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end,… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it… — Plato Copy Share Image
A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Consider the recent financial crisis and its link to faulty reward systems. President Bill Clinton's objective of increasing homeownership by rewarding potential… — Max H. Bazerman Copy Share Image
I argue for a relational conception of the person as a basis for an environmental ethic that can encourage us to preserve… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“I would sooner have the approval of my own conscience and know that I had done my duty than to have the… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are… — Edward Robert Harrison Copy Share Image
Anytime a member of Congress wants to travel abroad - which we do from time to time as part of our official… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
“Is it possible that future generations will regard our present agribuisness and eating practices in much the same way we now view… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the eye that watches an honest man, and the guide that keeps his actions even in secret. Hence, other men's… — Haruna Idowu Copy Share Image
They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his… — Jami Gertz Copy Share Image
We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If wrong decisions, both from a governance perspective and ethics, happen, this is a slippery slope that we will go down. Unless… — Cyrus Pallonji Mistry Copy Share Image
“I think Farmer taps into a universal anxiety and also into a fundamental place in some troubled consciences, into what he calls… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Ethics is not a mystic fantasy--nor a social convention--nor a dispensable, subjective luxury...Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival--not by the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“This place is like the Army: the shark ethic prevails--eat the wounded. In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Ethics and moralities cover a wide range of values. Such words might sound delightful to someone’s ears or make another feel a… — Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib Copy Share Image
Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
We are often deceived when we want to believe what we know we shouldn't. when our conscience tell us NO and our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In this world, we walk beneath a sun that has spots on it, and we do so with no conflict of conscience… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
You will only have consequences for your evil actions if you have developed a conscience; otherwise there is no accountability in this… — Rev Richard Skaff Copy Share Image
Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
It's just one day at a time. I love multi-tasking and I'm really organized and when you have a certain work ethic,… — Kris Jenner Copy Share Image
It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
A rationalism of serving any living being with a consistent ethics and morality of an unquestionable nature in any sphere of activity… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image