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Conscience Quotes by Arthur Koestler
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,…
- The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience…
- History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.
- To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
More Conscience Quotes
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler
- A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor. — Austin Phelps
- Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it? — Unknown Author
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard