Ethics Quote by Mary Renault

“In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.”

Mary Renault

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You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

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“I looked at him, tipping down the coarse wine like a man who expects to put up with worse. I felt I was looking…

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“For I had felt too much and reasoned too little, hearing what I was ready to hear, not what had been said. There”

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“Go in peace," I said to him; "bear no ill-will to me, for Necessity yields to no man: and do not complain of me…

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There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.

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Longing performs all things

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A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

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“You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to…

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“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they…

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“Hephaistion had known for many ages that if a god should offer him one gift in all his lifetime, he would choose this. Joy…

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“It is the mark of little men to like only what they know; one step beyond, and they feel the black cold of chaos.”

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“His mouth felt cold to mine ; he neither opened his eyes, nor spoke, nor moved. I said in my heart, "Too late I…

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Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

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“Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.”

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He who mistrusts most should be trusted least.

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Martin Firrell

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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

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My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

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Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Izaak Walton

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Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

Guy de Rothschild

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“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.”

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There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we…

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I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

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