Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It shows something, though: if you're going to be soulless, you should at least consider outsourcing your conscience to someone else.” — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
“Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it. — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
“And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
My twenties were carefree in the worst ways. There's a nice balance now of work ethic and healthy lifestyle and carefree attitude,… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
I grew up in New England. I think I was brought up with the Puritan ethic: that if you worked really hard… — Ken Blanchard Copy Share Image
In the industry, people talk about how getting their first project was a struggle but for me, the real struggle in Mumbai… — Rubina Dilaik Copy Share Image
We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image
I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Within the small crew of people who hold the media's many 'NeverTrump' positions, the Ethics and Public Policy Center's Pete Wehner doesn't… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only… — LaVell Edwards Copy Share Image
For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
“Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Fortunately, the metamorphosis came too late to permit me to go back to graduate school. And thus I escaped indoctrination. Whatever I… — Judith Rich Harris Copy Share Image
There are insistent calls for autonomy, appeals for a new resource ethic based on the tradition of the commons, demands for the… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The instructor has to teach history, cosmogony, psychology, ethics, the laws of nations. How can he do it without saying anything favorable… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences. — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
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