"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."

Ethics, Conscience, Law, Majority, Morality

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"Let thy true religion be to act right."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Ethics, Religion, Action, Morality, Right

"Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!"

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Ethics, Animals, Life, Empathy, Respect

"Develop a conscience to live by."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Ethics, Conscience, Life, Values

"They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Ethics, Sin, Choice, Morality, Behavior

"Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Ethics, Intolerance, Violence, Peace

"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Ethics, Moral Foundation, Character, Influence, Values

"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

Ursula K. Le Guin, American Writer

Ethics, Goodness, Grace, Happiness, Guilt

"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Ethics, Morality, Truth, Wisdom, Religion

"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Ethics, Feelings, Truth, Wisdom, Compassion

"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

Todd Stocker, American Author

Ethics, Integrity, Choice, Courage, Work

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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment."

Leadership

"Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue."

Faith

"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true."

Politics

"One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own."

Faith

"Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there."

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"Let thy true religion be to act right."

"Animals are here to live their lives. We are here to live ours. We can live well without eating them. How pathetic it is that we have to eat a life just to live our lives!"

"Develop a conscience to live by."

"Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."

"Your moral foundation and character currently depend on what you hear."

"To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed."

"Morality exists in the neurons as a natural sensation. Religion only tries to codify it."

"Life wants you to know that feelings are more important than facts, and you should never hurt someone just to be right."

"Sometimes it is better to say 'no' and lose your job than it is to say 'yes' and lose your soul."

Explore more quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."

"I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain."

"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."

"Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."

"Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny."

"Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue."

"To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true."

"One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own."

"Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there."