Ethics Quote by James Fenimore Cooper Download Open image ““A man without conscience is but a poor creature...”” — James Fenimore Cooper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics
“But I hope you will heed this: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.” — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“A man's conscience and his judgment are the same thing, and, as the judgment, so also the conscience may be erroneous” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Nothing is worth the loss of one's conscience, or the ability to do what is right.” — Kathleen Morgan Copy Share Image
“The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“For if you do not consider the man before you to be human, there are few constraints of conscience on your behavior towards him.” — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to live at all.” — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Deity, and with erecting temples… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“The deer that goes too often to the lick meets the hunter at last!” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“The air, the water, and the ground are free gifts to man, and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels.… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist whose shades of contenance may resemble mine?” — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“The tree blossoms, and bears its fruit, which falls, rots, withers, and even the seed is lost! Go, count the rings of the oak… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“When men speak, they should say that which does not go in at one side of the head and out at the other. Their… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“All places that the eye of heaven visits/ Are to a wise man ports and happy havens:/ Think not the king did banish thee:/… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“I look upon the redmen to be quite as human as we are ourselves, Hurry. They have their gifts, and their religion, it's true;… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“I want no thunder or lightning to remind me of my God, nor am I as apt to bethink on most of all His… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“I have attended church-service in the garrisons, and tried hard...to join in the prayers...but never could raise within me the solemn feelings and true… — James Fenimore Cooper 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
