Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority. — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of justice,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
I must conclude that Conscience, if that be the name of it, was not given us for no purpose, or for a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In some states, the attorney general is appointed, but in New York state it's an independently elected position. The New York attorney… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The fact is that people who strap bombs to their bodies to blow up families at a Bar Mitzvah in Israel, plant… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to… — Ernest Bevin Copy Share Image
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.” — Sue Augustine Copy Share Image
Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth,… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Dalgliesh told himself that he should have remembered what, as a small boy, he had discovered about Uncle Hubert's conscience--that it operated… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and… — David Draiman Copy Share Image
“Life, with all its surprises, is full of moments that, although predictable, keep surprising us. Every sensation, although already written, makes us… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image
