There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer. — Patrick Lencioni Copy Share Image
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time? — Lauren Zalaznick Copy Share Image
I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
A guilty conscience never feels secure. The feeling of Guilt that overwhelmes you is the nerve of sorrow that will never let… — Kev Moores Copy Share Image
“And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you… — Elton John Copy Share Image
No man can always be right. So the struggle is to do one's best, to keep the brain and conscience clear, never… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Very often people who live in a ghetto accept some of the stigmatisation against them. I mention the case of a Japanese… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the manifestation of our divine nature, the absolute truthfulness that we all have inside, that resides beyond the instinctive desire… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the… — Claus von Stauffenberg Copy Share Image
Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
People who believe in themselves and in a cause greater than themselves can achieve great things-as long as they have a well-intentioned… — John Baldoni Copy Share Image
My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Freedom is the only real doctor of the sick slaves; and a good conscience, of the ill masters! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Advertisers rip out one another's conscience to control the spending impulses of males ages 18 to 34, who now have the cyber… — Skip Bayless Copy Share Image