"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from……" — Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it."
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95 Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
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Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you…
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their…
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As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony…
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each…
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God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.
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Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
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There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies…
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What nature creates has eternity in it.
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When we're trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask…
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he…
— Francis of Assisi
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
— David Attenborough
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
— Richard Bach
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their…
— Walter Bagehot
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
— Honore de Balzac
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
— Honore de Balzac
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
— Bono
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