“We take comfort in the notion of an unbridgeable gulf between good and evil, but maybe we should understand, as Zimbardo's work… — Shane Bauer Copy Share Image
“[...] like any human practices, those of religions are not exempt from ethical questioning. Rituals and rites in groups change behavior, sometimes… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The Jews emerge into history, not a nation of keen spiritual aspirations and altruistic ethics, but that pagan people, worshipping rocks, sheep… — James T. Shotwell Copy Share Image
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life. Now, with the new feeling that had… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is no moral absolute, and this leads us to situational ethics, which unfortunately is being taught in public schools all over… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I have gotten disturbed at some of the Democrats' anti-business behavior, the sentiment, the attacks on work ethic and successful people. I… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
“One peculiarity of our present [ethical] climate is that we care much more about our rights than about our 'good'. For previous… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
“The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically… — David Pearce Copy Share Image
The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension… — Elisee Reclus Copy Share Image
“This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Because of the oil-and-water relationship governments have cultivated between ethics and political economy, speaking in plain terms - spelling it out as… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that… — Jerry Costello Copy Share Image
“One act of conscience that prevents you from a wrongdoing when nobody is watching, is far more civilized than a thousand laws… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
“Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to impose their own agenda.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Colleges don't teach economics properly. Unfortunately we learn little from the experience of the past. An economist must know, besides his subject,… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I believed that regardless of political ideologies - the reality was I didn't even have any - which is no excuse, and… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
“there is no such thing as business ethics. Just ethics. It’s not separate from the rest of your life. If you have… — Don Keough Copy Share Image
Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I will not do that which my conscience tells me is wrong to gain the huzzahs of thousands, or the daily praise… — Lord Mansfield Copy Share Image
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you… — John Michael Hayes Copy Share Image
The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“This is what we love in friends. We love to the point that human conscience feels guilty if we do not love… — Saint Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To me, form is not something that you can plan beforehand, especially for a documentary. You can't write it or sketch it.… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
In walking through the world there is a choice for a man to make. He can choose the fair and open path,… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
What does a lamp do? The lamp is like a horse that is running but stays put. But by virtue of being… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you,… — Kenny Burrell Copy Share Image
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