I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image
A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
There are truths on this side of the Pyrenees which are falsehoods on the other — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never cut your conscience just to make people happy, cause you wont be able to do it everytime, so stop than and… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour. — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
“I did dream of it, chiefly because 'all things are lawful.' That was quite right what you taught me, for you talked… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
Just as eunuchs will never know aesthetics as applied to the selection of beautiful women, so neither will pure rationalists ever know… — Miguel Copy Share Image
The Office of Government Ethics has taken the right position on this, one consistent with many Republicans and Democrats. And by the… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
If falsehood, like truth, had but one face, we would be more on equal terms. For we would consider the contrary of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
As for the work ethic, I'm just the kind of guy who takes what he does seriously. I never missed a day… — Dolph Schayes Copy Share Image
“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Are psychiatric crises so overwhelming to the mind that they inhibit the presence of ethics? Is depression at root an amoral phenomenon,… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
Between being praised and persecuted condoned and condemned I might understandably have become bewildered particularly at the brand of ethics sometimes displayed… — Vashti McCollum Copy Share Image
“By setting such strong, harsh dichotomies God taught Israel that any assimilation to pagan idolatry is intolerable. It was His way of… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
Lawyers, before any other group, must continue to point out how the system is really working-how it actually affects real people. They… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Your conscience is revelation to you as surely as if the Lord sent an angel to your bedroom with a flaming sword.” — John M. Pontius Copy Share Image
The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
He who has a true idea, knows at that same time that he has a true idea, nor can he doubt concerning… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs. — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read.… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work. — Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook Copy Share Image
“Conscience accompanies every act with the comment: You should act differently, although its true sense is: You could be other than you… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.' — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
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