Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
we make a great fuss about national conscience, but it consists mainly in insisting upon everyone ascribing our national policy to highly… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage… — Pol Pot Copy Share Image
While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection,… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
There is no more blessed way of living, than the life of faith based upon a covenant-keepin g God - to know… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes. — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this,… — India.Arie 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
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
Do what you know you ought to do. Why should we ever go abroad, even across the way, to ask a neighbor's… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding. — Raul Hilberg Copy Share Image
The success of the Starbucks has been based on this balance between profitability and a social conscience. Everywhere we're doing business, were… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
