Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“there may even be puritanical fanatics of conscience, who prefer to put their last trust in a sure nothing, rather than in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. — George A. Smith Copy Share Image
Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“Dump all autocratic nonsense of law-abidance, Tell the right from wrong by conscience rule. If you want human rights to reign supreme,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“That’s the wonderful thing about you so-called good folk. You hear what you want to believe. You think your conscience is whispering… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The two additional unique human endowments that enable us to expand our proactivity and to exercise personal leadership in our lives are… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
When I teach, it's important that I follow through on everything I say and stand by what I do. — Billy Gunn Copy Share Image
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The conscience...is not infallible. Nor is it a source of revelation about right and wrong. Its role is not to teach you… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“A woman may walk around naked in front of a man, but a civilized man would never jump over her, driven by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“To admit that some people literally have no conscience is not technically the same as saying that some human beings are evil,… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Many expressions in the New Testament come naturally to the lips of all Protestants, and it furnishes the most pregnant and practical… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Ever heard that little phrase “Life’s hard, then you die”? Well, that’s a pretty hopeless outlook on life, and it’s definitely not… — Cary Schmidt Copy Share Image
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
... women of the North, I ask you to rise up with earnest, honest purpose, and go forward in the way of… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right norsafe. Here I stand, I can do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience… — William McKinley Copy Share Image
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil… — Michael Novak Copy Share Image
With your whole body, with your whole heart, with your whole conscience, listen to the Revolution…This is the music everyone who has… — Alexander Blok Copy Share Image
Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was… — Adelheid Manefeldt Copy Share Image
The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention. — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
“Mind is the master of this planet, and when that mind is not moral, not conscientious, not wise, it leads to a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ. — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the… — Matt Drudge Copy Share Image
