Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe... — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence. — Pawan Kalyan Copy Share Image
Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person. — Vicky Beeching Copy Share Image
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy. — Sally Hawkins Copy Share Image
Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“I am choosing the bear every time unless we can explicitly state that it is in a man's true nature to do… — Niedria D. Kenny Copy Share Image
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people… — Natasha Richardson Copy Share Image
I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my… — Boris Trajkovski Copy Share Image
We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion… — Jon Anderson Copy Share Image
“What we now call "morality" was evolved – as nearly all social and physical human attributes were – to aid us in… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Using the phrase business ethics might imply that the ethical rules and expectations are somehow different in business than in other contexts.… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“This is what is meant by conscience: it is not a mysterious, extra-rational faculty, but the best and final judgment of our… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things. If they choose to… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
