Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of… — Thane Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
The ethical regime [of the Jews] was quite definitely Ptolemaic, revolving around the small group of Jews, not the larger Gentile group… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
General Colin Powell shocked a lot of people in Washington by speaking out against President Bush's policies, saying that the world is… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
Mass incarceration has become normalized in the United States. Poor folks of color are shuttled from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to run from… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it. — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Corporate leaders surely have their problems, I believe that most CEOs are doing their best to hew to the ethical line. The… — John C. Bogle Copy Share Image
Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I hate asking someone for their opinion, it always sounds like the right & moral thing to do. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
If we want to understand the distinctive constitution of Europe, we must go back to its religious foundations. For the moral beliefs… — Larry Siedentop Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be… — Peter Akinola Copy Share Image
During our long period of slumber the United States government has lost its moral authority. It is owned, operated, and controlled by… — Thomas Naylor Copy Share Image
You will never win if you don't deal with your work ethically. All that you need to do is to stick to… — Ranveer Singh Copy Share Image
MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils. — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I could end this with a moral, as if this were a fable about animals, though no fables are really about animals. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Sometimes the dues we pay to maintain integrity are pretty high, but the ultimate cost of moral compromise is so much higher. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
I am personally thankful that we live together in a large moral house even if we do not drink at the same… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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