Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
More important than your obligation to follow your conscience, or at least prior to it, is your obligation to form your conscience… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
I close my conscience to the outside world, because in my thoughts only beautiful things exists. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right. — James Larkin Copy Share Image
I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician. — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling. — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the… — Chester Bowles Copy Share Image
“When a person denies his conscience for too long, it can become seared. That person becomes susceptible to receiving and accepting all… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
What a difference! Under the esthetic sky, everything is buoyant, beautiful, transient! when ethics arrives on the scene, everything becomes harsh, angular… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him things to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“1. That he had approved himself to his own conscience, verse 12: “For our own rejoicing is this, the testimony of our… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I'm sorry to see that again we are turning to the courts for decisions that concern ethics. I think theologians and ethicists… — Susan P. Crawford Copy Share Image
A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the… — William Z. Foster Copy Share Image
In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I think it's time we recognized the Dark Ages are over. Galileo and Copernicus have been proven right. The world is in… — Chris Shays Copy Share Image
The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. — Max Born Copy Share Image
The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Loves way of dealing with us is different from consciences way. Conscience commands; love inspires. — Raj Copy Share Image
“Ethics is not about the way things are, it's about the way they ought to be.” — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I've decided to do it, for the pure and simple reason that I just think it's the right thing to do. — Charlie Crist Copy Share Image
Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any other previous President. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission… — George O'Neil Copy Share Image
My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
“You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, Praise the eternal justice… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
