Ethics Quote by Thomas Paine Download Open image “Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.” — Thomas Paine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics Inspirational Morality People Shocked
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out. — Billie Piper Copy Share Image
I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
People like things that make sense to them; your perspective is your reality. — Mustafa Ali Copy Share Image
People are entitled to their own opinions and what they believe in, but it's very hard when it's something that logically does not make… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“No man is prejudiced in favour of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“The laws of every country must be analogous to some common principle.” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests and preachers, to impose the Bible on… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter… — Thomas Paine 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
