I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image
Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one's behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white. — John Francis Dodge Copy Share Image
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“My conscience, Sensei, tells me I cannot remain forever an artist of the floating world.” — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.” — David Crockett Copy Share Image
Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to… — Hugo Ball Copy Share Image
Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“Sorting out what's good and bad is the province of ethics. It is also what keeps priests, pundits, and parents busy. Unfortunately,… — Thomas Cathcart Copy Share Image
God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The human person is in danger: this is certain, the human person is in danger today, here is the urgency of human… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an… — Thiruman Archunan Copy Share Image
The classic relationship with grass that early hippies had was that it's better shared with friends. You can't really get high with… — Stephen Gaskin Copy Share Image
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Peace is never long preserved by weight of metal or by an armament race. Peace can be made tranquil and secure only… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
I have always known that there were spellbinding evil parts for women. For one thing, I was taken at an early age… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
