The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“A guilty conscience is a great blessing, but only if it drives us to come home.” — John Stott Copy Share Image
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine. — Daniel Cormier Copy Share Image
To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights. — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Something's still wrong--the same thing that was wrong forty years ago. A malignancy, a tumor, slowly growing in someone's heart. A conscience… — Heather Day Gilbert Copy Share Image
In the best of circumstances, the Trump family business and questions about conflicts will be a burden to his presidency. There is… — Tom Fitton Copy Share Image
It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Omit a few of the most abstruse sciences, and mankind's study of man occupies nearly the whole field of literature. The burden… — George Finlayson Copy Share Image
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world, being in the constant commission of vast quantities of injustice, is a little too apt to comfort itself with the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.” — John Brunner Copy Share Image
The world would be a lot better if people paid as much attention to their conscience as they do to their neighbours… — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It’s time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.” — Anurag Shourie Copy Share Image
“ethics is not about platitudes, let alone tautologies, logic or mathematics, but about difficult choices - dilemmas.” — Martin Cohen Copy Share Image
.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!” — Evinda Lepins Copy Share Image
People who don't have a conscience, who have no problem doing terrible things to other people, that's scary. — Leslie Grossman Copy Share Image
The Conscience Protection Act would ensure no one is coerced to participate in abortions or to provide abortion coverage. — Cindy Hyde-Smith Copy Share Image
No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we… — Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo Copy Share Image
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world. — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
“You could be acquitted at the bar of the court but not at the bar of your conscience.” — James C. Uwandu Copy Share Image
“An area of land used for crops will feed about ten times as many people as the same area of land used… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
