"I have a huge and savage conscience that……" — Octavia Butler
"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."
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100 Quotes by Octavia Butler
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write…
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of…
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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science…
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling…
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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is…
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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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