Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted. — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
A theory of motivation is defective if it renders intelligible behaviour which is not intelligible. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Ethics is not just an abstract intellectual discipline. It is about the conflicts that arise in trying to meet real human needs… — John Ziman Copy Share Image
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.” — Wei Wu Wei Copy Share Image
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
...truth-telling may be an ethic, adopted by photojournalists as a behavior, but experience shows us that it is not embedded in the… — Andy Grundberg Copy Share Image
“At its best, art can be nothing more than a means of forgetting the human disaster for a while.’ I am still… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I don't think Edward Snowden deserves a death penalty or life in prison. I think that's inappropriate. I think that's why he… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Most parents would not hesitate to assume responsibility for their child's behavior on a playground, at school, or in someone else's home.… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
In regard to the past, where contemplation is not obscured by desire and the need for action, we see, more clearly than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
“In seeing the thinkers in this tradition as embodying a certain fundamental viewpoint, I am far from denying that there is disagreement between… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Dr. Lois Jolyon West was cleared at Top Secret for his work on MKULTRA. West's numerous connections to the mind control network… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“While mistakes may be local, in today’s connected world embarrassment is global” — Gyan Nagpal Copy Share Image
Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil. — Mahmoud Mohammed Taha Copy Share Image
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I can't control the naysayers. I can control my attitude and work ethic and determination and that's what I'm focused on now. — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
“Balance is of the essence,' she said. 'That appies to all good, harmonious relationships. Balance in guilt, balance in shame and pangs… — Jo Nesbo Headhunters Copy Share Image
“The expense of eating is, in great part, the resistance the second life offers to being eaten.” — Spider Robinson Copy Share Image
Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
The highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity. Choose right over wrong, ethic over convenience, and… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
the private conscience is the last and only protection of the civilized world. — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image