The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“In such cases, 'we overcome our moral feeling if necessary', freedom, peace, conscience even, all, all are brought into the market.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. — Rocco Buttiglione Copy Share Image
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it. — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. — Robert Staughton Lynd Copy Share Image
“. . .three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-night useless, since their… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“So how do we sort it all out? The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in just one sentence.… — Amy Dacyczyn Copy Share Image
Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America… — Rod Parsley Copy Share Image
Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best… — Kathy Ireland 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
“Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively:… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone… — John Guillebaud Copy Share Image
It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And it is enough for the poet to be the guilty conscience of his time.” — St John Perse Copy Share Image
We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics. — Ernst Troeltsch Copy Share Image
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