Ethics Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin Download Open image ““They preserved autonomy of conscience even at the cost of becoming eccentric.”” — Ursula K. Le Guin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics Freedom
“How can you escape from your own conscience, the reality of your own actions?” — Neil Walker Copy Share Image
“intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as fundamental in humans as the urge for individual autonomy: the need to belong.” — Aileen M. Kelly Copy Share Image
“Eccentrics with unseeing eyes glided through, savouring amid so much society their own particular loneliness and private sins and sorrows.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse.” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“A guilty conscience, urged with the thought Of former evils, easily cannot err.” — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
“They are human, after all, and it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue. So that it might be lived with, so… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Instead of giving a firm foundation for setting the conscience of man at rest forever, Thou didst choose all that is exceptional, vague and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“An active moral life cannot be evolved except where people are free to express their feelings and act upon the insights of conscience.” — George Dennison Copy Share Image
“Character joins our inner conscience to our behavior in the world.” — Asher Intrater Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
