Ethics Quote by Robert Burton

“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no…

— Anonymous

Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the…

— John Calvin

“For a brazen Libertine, an adulterer, a sodomite, an atheist, a fornicator, rakehell, heretic, godless playmaker and debaucher of innocents, you’re a sorry state…

— Elizabeth Bear

“Of all the acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults . . . is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle)”

— Thomas Carlyle

“The man Of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys: Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches, and obedience, Bane of all genius,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?”

— Joseph Conrad

“Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Every one has his peculiarities and cannot get rid of them; and yet many a one is destroyed by his peculiarities, and those too…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“But this is my contentment, that I've lost what I never needed and what I need I can never lose: these two things, universal…

— Walter Wangerin Jr

“God is aware of the hypocrisy in the hearts of men”

— Sunday Adelaja

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

“men are strangely inclined to worship what they do not understand. A grand secret, upon which several imposers on mankind have totally relied for…

— Henry Fielding