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“From Memorial Day to Labor Day, you may wear white shoes. Not before and not after. As a command, the White Shoe Edict should be clear and simple enough. Do not violate it. In a society in which everything else has become relative, a matter of how it makes you feel, a question between you and your conscience, and an opportunity for you to be really you, this is an absolute.”

Source: Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium

“What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,--to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us?”

Reason Enough Honor Conscience Dignity Command Stations Honorable Have Courage

Book:Essays upon several moral subjects

Source: Essays upon several moral subjects

“God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.”

Kind Form Justice Moral Practice Millions Forever Eternal Draws Conscience Responsible Everyday Dare Command Pleasant Sinner Vague Repent Trifles Severity Iniquity Opiates

Book:The Knowledge of the Holy

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.”

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny

“Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.”

Giving Divine Duty Conscience Infinite Delight Conviction Creator Command Sanctions Rectitude

Book:The Works of William E. Channing

Source: The Works of William E. Channing

“Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.”

One Thing Conscience Command

Author:Teresa of Avila

“Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate...Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.”

Whole Government Freedom Liberty Psychology Please Promise Conscience Slave Contrary Favors Practicals Command Combination Fraud Grounded

Author:H. L. Mencken

“A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.”

People Long Authority Conscience Command Perceive Proportion Obedience To Authority

Author:Stanley Milgram