We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate… — William Blake Copy Share Image
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I am not saying that you have to believe in God to make moral decisions. God's existence is not dependent on my… — Michael Ots Copy Share Image
A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We will be judged. There will be an accounting; there will be a reckoning sooner or later. It will either come from… — Beto O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Is there conscience in the Kremlin? Do they ever ask themselves what is the purpose of life? What is it all for?...… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Conscience is justice's best minister; it threatens, promises, rewards, and punishes and keeps all under control; the busy must attend to its… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
“After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“This is what is meant by conscience: it is not a mysterious, extra-rational faculty, but the best and final judgment of our… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms.… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“... a good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself, which the neglect… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Recognition of the Genocide is the triumph of human conscience and justice over intolerance and hatred. — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But nobody has ever yet called a philosopher "a hired conscience," though everybody gives the lawyer this nickname. Why this partiality?” — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Photography is, by its nature, exploitative. It's whether you use this process with a sense of responsibility or not. I feel that… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“The torments of a proud decision, a deep conscience! God, in whom he did not believe, and his truth were overcoming his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I believe life is a parenthesis between two nothings. I'm an atheist. I believe in a personal God, which is conscience, and… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of God is, in reality, the mental kingdom of a conscientious, compassionate and courageous human.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from… — Maria Monk Copy Share Image
Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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