Many, no doubt, are well disposed, but sluggish by constitution and habit, and they cannot conceive of a man who is actuated… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Families of privilege and money would have harps in their parlors, and their cultured daughters would learn to play. It's got such… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard , as more and more vital gestures… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
“whether they knew of didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every… — Robert L. Reymond Copy Share Image
“You can’t be hard on a man who needs you, it will prey on your conscience for the rest of your life.”… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Irrespective of the conflict with America it is a human duty to show sympathy with the American people, and be with them… — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of… — William Langland Copy Share Image
“Mother: What more can we be? Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Private Manning is the world's pre-eminent prisoner of conscience, having remained true to the Nuremberg principle that every soldier has the right… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“. . .three percent of all males are deemed to be antisocial and without conscience, while only one percent of females seem… — Ann Rule Copy Share Image
In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we… — Timothy Pickering Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of what Harry Truman turned out to be in office and the record he made. Certainly I think he'll… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about… — Shaqiq al-Balkhi Copy Share Image
I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
“In Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone he goes so far as to claim that conscientious moral judgement cannot err. The… — Jens Timmermann Copy Share Image
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The successful truck gardener can never go out to dinner in the summer or spend a week end away, because his conscience… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
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