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“Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.”

Past Passion Evil Memories Enemy Figures Pride Habit Conscience Deeds Pursue Selfishness Malice

Author:George A. Smith

“A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.”

Home Happiness House Source Comfortable Conscience Source Of Happiness House And Home

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“I can't in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.”

People World I Can Government Liberty Building Internet Conscience Machines Around The World Privacy Massive Surveillance Nsa Government Spying Internet Freedom Government Surveillance

Author:Edward Snowden

“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.”

Whole Political Humanity Peace Voice Religious Justice Conscience Social Justice Fairness Peace And Justice Peace Justice Law And Justice

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“A heartsong doesn't have to be a song in your heart. It doesn't have to be talking about love and peace. It can just be your message. It can be your feeling. Some people might even call it a conscience, even though that's not really what it is. It's your message, what you feel like you need to do.”

People Needs Feels Heart Feelings Might Song Talking Like You Messages Conscience Peace And Love

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.”

Men Opinion Conscience Anticipation

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.”

World Done Nations Social United Five Economic Fields Percent Conscience Educational United Nations Eighty Social Service

Author:Shirley Temple

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”

Life Trying Form Change Our Lives Demand Conscience Resolution Deep Thought Impossibility

Book:Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

Source: Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

“War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”

Trying War Literature Voice Conscience Ugly Unjust Stifling Unjust War

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.”

Ifs Men Mean States Reason Literature Half Conscience Contrary Our Time One Half

Book:The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)

“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

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Book:Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

Source: Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”

“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.”

Character Courses Fear Enjoy Secret Virtue Honesty Integrity Conscience Enjoy Life No Fear Have No Fear

Book:Candide: and other writings

Source: Candide: and other writings

“The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.”

People Truth Nations Source Conscience Dignity Harmony Workers Sole Solidarity Peasants

Author:Lech Walesa

“But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.”

Jesus Sin Ability Moral Dog Conscience Rejects Moral Conscience

Author:Rick Warren

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.”

Littles Fire Alive Evolution Integrity Conscience Labor Breasts Sparks 4th Of July Celestial Sparking

Author:George Washington

“The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.”

Men Made White Conscience Appeals Pockets White Man

Book:On Lynchings

Source: On Lynchings

“The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.”

Men World Want Soul Fall Names Heaven Sin Honest Duty Conscience Needles Honest Man Do Not Fear

Author:Ellen G. White

“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”

Inspirational Inspiration Leadership Leader Greater Conscience

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”

“Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.”

Ifs World Doe Church This World Brother Conscience Distance Unity Consumerism Free Market Overconsumption Your Brother Being Free

Author:Bono

“There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.”

Mother Strong Social Conscience My Family Doctors Grandparent

Author:Robert Winston

“In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.”

Stars Views Rocks Conscience Rock Star

Author:Bono

“A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.”

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”

Thinking Art Mankind Conscience Superiors Censorship Inferiors

Author:William Butler Yeats

“I believe you have to nurture your conscience.”

Believe I Believe Conscience Nurture

Author:Loretta Young

“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

“Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.”

World Heart Grief Conscience Towns Drunk Sober Small Town

Author:Dorothy Allison

“Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

Life Soul Reality Race Conscience Welcome My Soul Young Man Encounters Finnegans Wake

Author:James Joyce

“Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.”

Book:Void of course: poems 1994-1997

Source: Void of course: poems 1994-1997

“Conscience doth make cowards of us all.”

Truth Creativity Creative Honesty Conscience Coward

Author:William Shakespeare

“I know how people are, with their habits of mind. Most will sail through from cradle to grave with a conscience clean as snow...I know people. Most have no earthly notion of the price of a snow-white conscience.”

People Knows Mind White Know How Habit Conscience Clean Notion Graves Snow Sail Cradle Snow White Habits Of Mind

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.”

Life Time Asks Peace Courage Position Safe Conscience Vanity Cowardice There Comes A Time Expedience

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.”

Children Doe Hands Turns Sleep Baby Weakness Conscience Tiny Length Smallest Invincible Dimes Eyelashes Sleeping Baby

Book:Perfect Match

Source: Perfect Match

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”

Should Persons Doe Conscience

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.”

World Should Years Ends Self Moral Journey Dangerous Conscience Temptation Meals Tomatoes Extravagant Cain Wilder Lazarus

Author:Annie Dillard

“The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.”

Play Common Acting Kings Scene Conscience Inaction Hamlet 2 Most Memorable Important Hamlet Hamlet Theme Be Or Not To Be Hamlet Revenge Hamlet Significant

Author:William Shakespeare

“I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.”

Feels Stills Peace Quiet Conscience Dignity Memorable Inner Happiness Inner Peace And Happiness Peace And Quiet

Author:William Shakespeare

“It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.”

Loses Conscience Coward

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.”

Helping Honest Safe Conscience Possession Contrary Help Me Word Of God Amen God Help Me

Author:Martin Luther

“I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?”

Mind Littles Girl Memories Source Pure Conscience Clean Envy Treasure Peace Of Mind Exquisite Refreshments Contamination Mr Rochester

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.”

Giving Happiness Virtue Teacher Teaching Quiet Conscience Esteem Honour

Book:The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.”

“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”

People Thinking Life Littles Bits Worry Subjects Little Bit Conscience Attachment Anguish Having Hope

Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin

“I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have dragged through I don't know how many consciences.”

Knows Has Beens Use Wanted My Own Know How Conscience

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything”

Feelings Moral Kindness Higher Conscience Consideration Milk Rats Decency Friendliness Scruples Rodents Compunction

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”

Kind War Religious Christianity Millions Conscience Judgement Vague Opiates

Book:The Knowledge of the Holy

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer. I have a conscience. I know right from wrong I know what I do and yes, I do it. I am the Vampire Lestat. That's your answer do with it as you will.”

Knows Black Answers Fool Conscience Vampire Hardened Capes Wanderers Sorrowful Lestat Tricksters Vampire Lestat

Author:Anne Rice