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Conscience Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when…
- Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.
- Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would…
- Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
- It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and…
- I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.
- Sin seen from the thought, is a diminution or less: seen from the conscience or will, itis pravity or bad. The intellectnames it shade, absence…
More Conscience Quotes
- 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
- 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
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot
- Modesty is the conscience of the body. — Honore de Balzac
- Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. — Honore de Balzac
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard