The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics. — Socrates Copy Share Image
In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All My Children' taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
In the heart of every man lurks a sense of inner wrongness and a conscience that will not be silenced. — John Hagee Copy Share Image
“Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.” — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
“We hope to drown the murmurs of our paralysed conscience by screaming about other people's sins.” — Faiqa Mansab Copy Share Image
“Things that seem morally obvious and intuitive now weren’t necessarily so in the past; many started with nonconforming reasoning.” — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Some of us find our way with a single light to guide us; others lose themselves even when the star field is… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Would you agree," he said, "that man's sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?" "Only if the pleasure produced… — Susan Hubbard Copy Share Image
The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
The experience of previous years leads to one conclusion: there is one morality in politics and another for economy. In the years… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
“Therefore I permit every man to hold either of these opinions, as he chooses. My one concern at present is to remove… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't.… — Jean Ferris Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I know that market value is a repulsive accounting of somebody’s worth, and many of us would be unable to put a… — Jessica Pierce Copy Share Image
“Observe the difference between your attitude to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion with all your might. If… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps theyre bad, its… — L Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“No life can be free from the storms of adversity unless that family and that home are built on foundations of morality,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Ethics is doing more than the law requires and less than the law allows. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image