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““Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.””

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“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she…

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I would hesitate to tell people to stop being kind or sympathetic to sociopath. But just like loyalty, some things that can be taken…

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“when confronted with a destructive outcome that is clearly their doing, they will say, plain and simple, “I never did that,” and will to…

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Usually sociopaths will look down upon us for that very reason - that we're gullible. We're weak. One person told me that he thought…

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A conscience is, for a while anyway, pretty easy to fake.

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I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.

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The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely,…

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When you were a child, where boredom could actually get to be painful. Sociopaths experience that kind of pain in boredom. And so to…

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One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

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We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty,…

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Most of who we are is our deepest emotions, and someone who cannot feel those emotions in a positive way is never going to…

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“Unless under the spell of a psychotic delusion, extreme rage, inescapable deprivation, drugs, or a destructive authority figure, a person who is conscience-bound does…

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Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Martin Firrell

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My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

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Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.

Izaak Walton

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Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

Guy de Rothschild

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The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it…

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

John Edensor Littlewood

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I've worked with people who are much further to the left than I am and much further to the right than I am. At…

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If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would…

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[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without…

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It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land…

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