Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy… — William C. Bryant 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
“It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn't me, it's the arrow. My hands do not bear… — Andrzej Sapkowski 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
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
“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
What does a man seek in this world? A position, or a throne? Man seeks peace of mind and the fear of… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience,… — Charles Lamb 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
I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil… — William Tyndale Copy Share Image
Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
“A person with a well-developed conscience sitting in a peaceful corner of the world becomes uneasy when thinking of the tragedies in… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Apparently, I’ve grown a conscience. I don’t know when it happened. I don’t know how it happened, but I’m not happy about… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to… — Paul K. Chappell Copy Share Image
One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect… — Jason Evert Copy Share Image
Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do,… — John Keble Copy Share Image
Every Catholic parliamentarian must vote according their well-formed conscience. I would say just this. I believe it is sufficient because - I… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Genuine bravery for a writer... It is about calmly speaking the truth when everyone else is silenced, when the truth cannot be… — Murong Xuecun Copy Share Image
I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
I have seen some whose consciences, owing undoubtedly to former indulgence, had grown to be as irritable as spoilt children, and at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think of Martin Luther King phrase a lot when I'm deciding public issues. He said: "Here I stand: I can do… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
One time I considered making a video game about my life where people control a character called 'Zach Braff' and run around… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I still oppose "Visit Myanmar Year," and I would ask tourists to stay away. Burma is not going to run away. They… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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