When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective… There is something about a war like… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I cleaned up. I quit drinking, I quit doing drugs, I quit stealing, I quit breaking into houses, I tried to quit… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man's… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
At times, morality can be dismissed as a matter of personal conscience, no matter how widespread its acceptance. Ethics, on the other… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We've actually seen Black man murders [in] many a major city in the United States - New York City, St. Louis, Missouri,… — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the… — Heinrich Böll Copy Share Image
There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible.… — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
[Men's] natural tendencies, natural proclivities, are bad. You gotta rein that in. You gotta dial that back. You need to really raise… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
You need companies investing in these countries, so women have employment opportunities, and you also need these forces of conscience. Without the… — Pietra Rivoli Copy Share Image
Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him;… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It… — Lyman Abbott Copy Share Image
Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I am extremely grateful and humbled by the solidarity and support expressed by countless persons, ex-judges, lawyers, activists and fellow citizens who… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have… — Flora Thompson Copy Share Image
In the long run, the quality of your work is all that matters. That is your only resumé. Be professional. Make sure… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the last years, I've been reading the Eastern fathers, the older mystical writings, a rich, deep, and truly traditional Christianity which… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists… — Irvin D. Yalom 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
“We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image