There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics;… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification — William Blake Copy Share Image
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul. — Vikram Chatwal Copy Share Image
Ethics are more important than laws. Which means that the exact note is less important than the feeling of the note. — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“All my life I'd thought of myself as an essentially good person, but all I'd been was comfortable.” — Molly Brown Copy Share Image
One always pulls the trigger out of self-interest and quotes history to avoid responsibility or pangs of conscience. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I define a human being as that creature that has no power or control over his/her own conscience and yet is still… — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that. — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
I've only been acting since 2009 and I learn more and more with each job. I think I prepare and I'm very… — Jenny Slate Copy Share Image
We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit… — Traudl Junge Copy Share Image
I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and… — David E. Kelley Copy Share Image
“The orthodox tend to think that people who, like the postmodernists and me, believe neither in God nor in some suitable substitute,… — Richard M. Rorty Copy Share Image
There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society,… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
But in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the finer arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
My conscience does not render a positive verdict in God’s courtroom when I look inside myself. The only reason I can sleep… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Analytic philosophy, that is to say, can very occasionally produce practically conclusive results of a negative kind. It can show in a… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.” — Abu arri Copy Share Image
We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
A can-do attitude, a positive personality, and a strong work ethic are still the primary ingredients for success at Nordstrom. — Robert Spector Copy Share Image
Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs. — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it. — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
“And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
People who wrestle with their consciences usually go for two falls out of three. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
