“No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.” DifficultImaginationDiseaseIllusionConscienceGuiltComplicatedCuresFancyDreadDistinguished Book:Commonplace Book Source: Commonplace Book
“It may be hard to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980's and because of both Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan - in particular Mrs Reagan - we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it. Something that I really appreciate was her very effective but low-key advocacy, but it penetrated the public conscience, and people began to say "hey we have to do something about this too.” PeopleRememberDifficultConscienceAppreciateAidsAdvocacy Author:Hillary Clinton
“The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads around, because those of us who do have a conscience can't really imagine what it would be like if we didn't. Most people think that deep down everybody has a conscience, and it turns out that's just not true.” PeopleThinkingDifficultImagineConscienceTraits Author:Martha Stout
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.” WarHumanityPeaceDifficultPerfectGreaterSacrificeDemandConscienceLaborPurityHeroicAntiwarHeroismFidelityAchieving Peace Book:The Nonviolent Alternative Source: The Nonviolent Alternative
“It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way.” WaySometimesEnoughPurposeDifficultLosesLoversConscienceFortunateGood FriendGood Service Author:Jon Katz
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.” PeopleBelieveSchoolOrderJesusBeliefDifficultBornClassProgressFindingsConscienceEnglandIncomeTalesFairyFairy TaleSectionsVirginsSalaryWhalesIngeniousJonahTwister Author:Upton Sinclair
“People do not avoid the Bible because it is difficult to understand as much as because what they understand condemns their conscience and throws light on dark corners in their lives which they prefer to keep dark.” PeopleLightDifficultDarkConscienceCorners Author:R.J. Rushdoony
“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no.” TryingMayChildrenUseProblemWantedCoursesDifficultCompassionWifeInfluenceConscienceMy WifeMy ChildrenMore TimeRetiringGrandchildrenMy GrandchildrenRest In PeaceNo Compassion Author:Nelson Mandela
“Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.” HeartChildrenStillsHomeSufferingWinningProcessDifficultLove YouVictoryOne DayConscienceCapacityEncouragementOur ChildrenAppealsBombsAssuredStill Love YouWe Will Win Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.