Ethics Quote by Alfred Bester Download Open image ““I picked up a rare disease called conscience" .... "That can often turn fatal.”” — Alfred Bester ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics Humor
“Your conscience troubles you unnecessarily, and you see a deliberate intention in every simple act.” — Baroness Emma Orczy Copy Share Image
“Conscience, my dear, is a kind of stick that everyone picks up to thrash his neighbor with, but one he never uses against himself.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Everything is going badly because at this moment the morbid conscience has an essential interest in not recovering from its own sickness.” — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
“The word conscience covers as a matter of fact several different feelings; the simplest of these is the fear of being found out. You,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Why did this disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate.” — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
“Guilty conscience confuse the humans from those that posses unscrupulous minds in action to control.” — Rolf Kobi Copy Share Image
“There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it yourself, sir. Don't ask the world… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
“no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Be grateful that you only see the outward man. Be grateful that you never see the passions, the hatreds, the jealousies, the malice, the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
If a man's got talent and guts to buck society, he's obviously above average. You want to hold on to him. You straighten him… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality. — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image