Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience. — Euripides Copy Share Image
“If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all… — Stephen McAndrew Copy Share Image
“Without ethics, a human race falls to inhumanity. Ethics determines your real value in this world and the hereafter.” — Nazim Ambalath Copy Share Image
Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I've worked hard, every single day since I left school. I think I have a Protestant work ethic. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
If not for that of conscience, yet at least for ambition's sake, let us reject ambition, let us disdain that thirst of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I write both at home and at coffee shops, and I have a terrible work ethic - I have a tendency to… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“There is no check-box for ethical leadership. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. We will never know everything that there… — Linda Fisher Thornton Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
In every case, we ought to act that part towards another, which we would judge to be right in him to act… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
The only answer in these modern times, as in all other times, is the blood of Christ. When our conscience rises up… — John Piper Copy Share Image
... the friendship of worthless people has a bad effect (because they take part, unstable as they are, in worthless pursuits, and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the heart of our public morality is the idea that he who gives generously is most virtuous and morally praiseworthy; that… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be… — Eugene Odum Copy Share Image
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics. — Keith Olbermann Copy Share Image