O Quotes
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“Our conscience is not God and it can’t give us any divine message. It only repeats what it has learned over a period of time right from our childhood. Our conscience is constantly modified based on new learning and personal experiences. Once we challenge our conscience and do the opposite, we start seeing the other side of the truth which we could never see due to our conditioned mind.”
Source: Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth
“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.”
Source: A Preface to Politics
“Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.”
“Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.”
“Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.”
Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays
“Our conscious experience normally includes a brief memory of what we sense as "the just before," which is attached to what we innocently think is the "now." That memory describes the sense of a self to whom some knowledge is being attributed.”
Source: The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness
“Our conscious mind tries hard to preserve the illusion that it deliberately chose every action you have ever taken; in reality, in many of these decisions it was a bystander at best, and much of the time it did not even notice the decision being made.”
Source: Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
“Our conscious minds are rapidly overwhelmed with the few tasks that they attempt to manage. That's why our unconscious minds have evolved to handle so much of our thinking.”
“Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life.”
“Our conscious self is what we admit to being. Our unconscious shadow is the part of us that we attempt to suppress, the part of us that our family, friends, employers, coworkers, associates, clients, neighbors, and society tells us to discard. Our shadow emerges from the unspeakable things that we discover about the world and ourselves. Both the magnificent as well as the bizarre residue of prior experiences lies buried and unconfessed in the fissures of our unconscious mind. The less a person’s shadow is embodied in a person’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Our consciousness and awareness, which includes our choices as to where we place our focus, alters the paths of our lives, and creates a split in reality, leading to the creation of two or more worlds at any moment in time.”
Source: Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
“Our consciousness can only give us an experience of our thinking.”
Source: Das hätte uns jemand sagen sollen!: Einfache Wahrheiten für ein gutes Leben
“Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.”
“Our consciousness is the transient reflection of universal consciousness. We shape it and make it our own with our shifting and changing awareness.”
“Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.”
Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life
“Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.”
“Our consciousness, our ideas, our frame of reference and our belief system determine whether we go to the river of life with a teaspoon, a cup, a bucket or a barrel.”
Source: Beyond Positive Thinking: A No-Nonsense Formula for Getting the Results You Want
“Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.”
Source: Silas Marner
“Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.”
“Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.”
“Our constellations lacked the vibrations we needed to align.”
“Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.”
“Our constituents did not send us to Washington to shut down the government. They sent us here to make it more accountable.”
“Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.”
“Our constitution enshrines the rule of law, freedom of worship and expression, we cherish these values too.”
“Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.”
“Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.”
“Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
“Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.”
Source: Looking Forward
“Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.”
“Our constitution mentions religion just twice, and both times the word 'no' are attached.”
“Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.”
Source: The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams
“Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.”
“Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.”
“Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.”
“Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people.”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Source: Works: with a life of the author
“Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.”
“Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.”
“Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961
“Our constitution, in short, is a judge-made constitution, and it bears on its face all the features, good and bad, of judge-made law.”
Source: The Law of the Constitution
“Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed.”
“Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“Our constitutional democracy demands our participation, all the time.”
“Our constitutional liberties shall not be sacrificed in our search for greater security, for that is what our enemies and all enemies of freedom and democracy hope to achieve.”
“Our Constitutional Republic wasn’t constructed through elitist social engineering or some sort of utopian political theory. It was raised from the ground up; formed from the very natures of the people whom made it possible. This is worthy of remembrance. This is history to be proud of. This is an identity to embrace. This is an ideal to defend.”
Source: The Way of Free Men: A Manual for Resisting Tyranny
“Our constitutional system is founded on democracy: the will of the people, not the unchecked rule of judges.”
“Our constitutions purport to be established by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people' consent to such government as the constitutions authorize. But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory. It has no existence in fact. Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.”
Source: The unconstitutionality of slavery: including parts first and second
“Our consumer economy peddles the notions "romantic consumerism" of finding "the one," of being the one. It's the narcissistic enhancement of, "I'm the one you stopped your nomadic life for." It's one thing when you have sex for the first time when you marry, but it's another thing altogether when you stop having sex with others when you marry. So the marital commitment becomes, "I must be really special. With me, you no longer think you can find better next door." Romantic consumerism is thinking you can't find better, younger or newer.”