Best conscience & blame Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”

Reason Causes Judgment Conscience Praise Blame Exposed Underestimated Undeserving

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone stares at them, everyone blames. But those bad girls sleep soundly at night, Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright, While our good girls toss and they turn- They lay awake for those who will burn.”

Night Turns Girl Sleep Virtue Grace Conscience Shame Blame Lays Staring Awake Soar Daylight Toss Fright Kites Good Girl Bad Girl

Author:Anna Godbersen

“I...asked why purebloods despised me so. He replied, 'What if the difference between social strata stem not from genomics or inherent xcellence or even dollars, but merely differences in knowledge? Would this not mean the whole Pyramid is built on shifting sands?... fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' consciences; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding up the mirror”

Ifs Mean Whole Social Differences Conscience Built Mirrors Blame Dollars Sand What If Inherent Stem Shifting Pyramids Despised Shifting Sand Genomics

Author:David Mitchell

“Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.”

Trying Made Might Conscience Asking Mirrors Blame Shock

Author:David Mitchell

“You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.”

Ifs Thinking Responsibility Conscience Blame Valuable Attributes Scope Make You Think

Author:Philip Roth

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities”

Men War Lying Nations Conscience Blame Every Man Glad Anti War Antiwar Self Deception Statesmen Soothing Grotesque Falsity War Propaganda

Author:Mark Twain

“Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.”

Hell Forever Conscience Blame Lays Rational Sinner Torment

Author:Richard Baxter

“A good coach is postive. Your job when coaching is not correcting mistakes, finding fault, and assessing blame. Instead, your function is achieving goals by coaching your staff to peak performance. Focusing on the positive means that you start with what's good and what works, and spend your attention and energy there.”

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