“My conscience was going to give me trouble on this one. That's the naggy little person who lives in your brain and… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence. — Pawan Kalyan Copy Share Image
As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Let this be your wall of brass, to have nothing on your conscience, no guilt to make you turn pale. — Horace Copy Share Image
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor. — Austin Phelps Copy Share Image
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness.… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Raw, real human conversation can be the most direct path to greater awareness and stronger relationships, even when it's unrehearsed and clumsy-perhaps… — Beverly L. Kaye Copy Share Image
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save:… — Chris Kyle Copy Share Image
There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath,… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
“He was a committed leader, capable of - or prone to - instinctive decisions. More: he could put aside thought in the… — André Alexis Copy Share Image
As I heard out people who had done others wrong, I'd often wonder how a human allows his or her better judgement… — Smriti Irani Copy Share Image
“How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the indulgence of… — Allan Kardec Copy Share Image
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic?… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“Philippa’s letter, from an afflicted conscience, was not very much longer. … if I don’t look for him, no one else will.… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Money as such is, as Oscar Wilde said, perfectly useless. You can't eat it, drink it, shelter yourself from the cold with… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Conscience warns us not to sink our cleats too deeply in mortal turf, which is so dangerously artificial. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
My heart is my temple and with it I can see and hear Truth. My heart is my conscience and Truth is… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man. — Charles Simmons Copy Share Image
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them! — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
“No text, being human creation, is free from flaws – it is the human mind that should be conscientious enough to accept… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King Copy Share Image
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience. — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that… — Jim Doyle Copy Share Image
Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life, I put my body and reputation on the line to stand up for my beliefs… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
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