Add Quote by Martin Firrell Download Open image “Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.” — Martin Firrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Add Conscience Ethics Our time Time Writing
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again. Writing is an act of self-affirmation. Each time that we place our thoughts onto paper, we receive a new opportunity to claim our reality. Writing is also an act of explication and deconstruction. Writing empowers us to shape… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
I want to live in a city where people who make the rules have to live by them. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't… — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good. — Martin Firrell Copy Share Image
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own! — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news… — Matt Cutts Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
