“Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things willing to live honestly. (Hebrews 13:18) — Bible Copy Share Image
“When you believe that you are the only path to progress, the choice is easy to make. And when they make that… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy. — Amanda Holden Copy Share Image
A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft.… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“... a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
There are no journalistic ethics that transcend the value of human life. There are none. In a situation where you can save… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
“A good conscience is a continual feast, but a galled conscience is as great a torment as can possibly happen, a still… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“We must stand on the side of goodness, compassion and conscience, not to keep the processes in Nature functioning, but because if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The fisherman of the Colombian coast must be learned doctors of ethics and morality, for they invented the word sentipensante, or ‘feeling-thinking’… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Rather than dull our consciences to the unmitigated violence of abortion, the passage of time has only enabled us to see and,… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to… — Bill Frist Copy Share Image
...mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics. Every other science, even logic,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The other side of my work is political disappointment - the realization that we are living in an unjust world. "Blood is… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You can understand why the original framers of judicial ethics thought it would be undignified and would call into question the legitimacy… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Business ethics has always had problems that are distinct from those of other professions, such as medicine, law, engineering, dentistry, or nursing. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which… — Priyavrat Thareja Copy Share Image
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and… — William James Copy Share Image
Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“It shows something, though: if you're going to be soulless, you should at least consider outsourcing your conscience to someone else.” — Josh Bazell Copy Share Image
“Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not… — Roger Brooke Taney Copy Share Image
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If your conscience objects, surely God also objects since He is even greater.” — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
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