Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Both the mind and the conscience can become so defiled that they cease making distinctions between what is pure and what is… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
NFL cheerleading is harder than most people think. They train up to six hours every day with games on Sundays. They gave… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
“Honesty was for those who could afford it, like heating or electricity or a conscience.” — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level. — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“When conscience is immobilised, public trust has disappeared. At that point, by default, institutions become omnipotent.” — Raymond Dirks Copy Share Image
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Secure in whom we are, rooted in one particular tradition or none at all, we have no reason to fear discovering God… — Robert V. Taylor Copy Share Image
Confirming an intuitive sense I've always felt for the interconnectedness of all things, this doctrine has provided me ways to understand the… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best. You don't want to… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Any first-order, substantive normative theory worth its salt will require attention to the mental states of agents in a variety of quite… — Russ Shafer-Landau Copy Share Image
Though we think intrinsic desires tend to be pretty stable, we do not think they imply anything like the amount of predictability… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
“Your life is a trajectory. Every choice you make alters that trajectory, in a positive or negative way. Will you categorize that… — Donald Van de Mark Copy Share Image
“The argument has long been made that we humans are by nature compassionate and empathic despite the occasional streak of meanness, but… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The seventh rule of the ethics of means and ends is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
It is not enough to ask, 'Will my act harm other people?' Even if the answer is No, my act may still… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal… — Liza Mundy Copy Share Image
If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic ... — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“My dream, my right - my failure, my fuel - my life, my ethics - my body, my choice.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is in vain when conscience is aroused to fly to feelings and evidences for comfort;” — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Having knowledge of an unethical act and allowing it to continue can spread a contagion that can affect multiple beings in society” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive. — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
If man has learned to see and know what really is, he will act in accordance with truth, Epistemology is in itself… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.” — Mahavira Copy Share Image
“Man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear? — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image