Best conscience & doe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.”

“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.”

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Author:Gyorgy Lukacs

“Conscience reigns but it does not govern.”

Doe Conscience Reign

Author:Paul Valery

“The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. If is unafraid of what other people think . . . It does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it developed its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.”

“He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.”

Knows Trying Looks Persons Doe Soul Order Turns Knowing Conscience Mirrors Saint Impulse Bother Dirty Defects Moderates

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”

“There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.”

Knows Giving Wells Kind Doe Certain Virtue Conscience Satisfaction Generous Rejoice Inward Congratulations Boldness Accompany

Book:Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

“Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real world, it takes a psychopath to want to rule over other human beings. Unless you want to define the word 'service' in the context of what a bull does to a cow, in no way are the efforts of politicians in this regard any kind of 'service'.”

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Author:Edward Britton

“The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: "Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself.”

Thinking Men Needs Doe Self Wish He Man Mass Conscience Cease

Book:Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

Source: Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations

“Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.”

Doe Religion Conscience Punishment

Author:August Strindberg

“When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.”

Ifs Way Littles Persons Doe Matter Party Conscience Guilt Injustice Oneself Betrayal Mysterious Relief Betrayed Injured Mysterious Ways

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.”

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Book:Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels

“Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with a moral sentiment to the actions he performs. Rather, his moral concern now shifts to a consideration of how well he is living up to the expectations that the authority has of him.”

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Author:Stanley Milgram

“As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice.”

Men Doe Interest Justice Liberty Conscience Regard Sake Liberalism Consistent Maximum Something Better Peace And Justice Dissatisfied Reformers

Author:Ralph Barton Perry

“My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.”

Doe Running Position Conscience Democratic Officials Permit Presidency Framework

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.”

Firsts Doe Individual Steps Violence Conscience Collectives First Steps Totalitarianism

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it is prov'd, that the literal Sense does in reality authorize the stirring up Persecutions against the Cause of Truth, and that an erroneous Conscience has the same Rights as an enlighten'd Conscience.”

Doe Reality Causes Answers Rights Violence Atheism Conscience Committed Positive Atheism Persecution Compulsion Enlightening Literal Stirring Supposing

Book:A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23:

Source: A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23:

“Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.”

“Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night”

Way Needs Doe Hard Night Conscience Comedian Sparks Every Night Kicking Jamie Kicking It

Author:Robin Williams

“Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.”

Knows Way Doe Poor Levels Rich Economic Conscience Capitalism Resources Flow Permit Doomed Privileged Riches And Poors Economic Resources

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Let not your peace rest in the utterances of men, for whether they put a good or bad construction on your conduct does not make you other than you are.”

Men Doe Conscience Construction Utterance

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.”

Men Mind Doe Action Evil Conscious Conscience Breasts

Book:The Fasti ; Tristia ; Pontic epistles ; Ibis ; and Halieuticon of Ovid

Source: The Fasti ; Tristia ; Pontic epistles ; Ibis ; and Halieuticon of Ovid

“A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.”

Men Doe Reason Sin Conscience

Author:J. G. Holland

“Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.”

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Book:The Spiritual Man

Source: The Spiritual Man

“How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"-and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?”

Ifs Knows Doe Different Ends Hands Names Easy Easier Conscience Murder Killing Retribution Different Names

Author:Neal Shusterman

“Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscienceis the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.”

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Author:Francois Rabelais

“Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.”

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Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.”

Doe Evil Left Causes Sin Clear Conscience Paradise Leap Clear Conscience

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break rules and defy authority. . . . She rids herself of the "oughts" and "musts" that convert every minor infraction into a sin of omission or commission. It certainly does not occur to her or to her family that by questioning the moral standards she erected as a child she is taking the first steps in her journey toward a firmer, more reasonable, less harsh, more ethical form of conscience.”

Firsts Children Doe Form Order Sin Existence Moral Steps Break Journey Authority Standards Conscience Reasonable Ethical First Steps Questioning Minors Adolescence Harsh Mundane Omission

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding this simple fact is the great error into which parents and educators fall when they rely on these negative means of correction. The only effective discipline is self-discipline, motivated by the inner desire to act meritoriously in order to do well in one's own eyes, according to one's own values, so that one may feel good about oneself may "have a good conscience.”

“When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.”

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Author:Christopher Reeve

“A man may act as his conscience dictates so long as he does not infringe upon the rights of others. That is the spirit of true democracy, and all government by the Priesthood should be actuated by that same high motive.”

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Author:David O. McKay

“As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body; so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.”

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Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.”

“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

“My conscience does not render a positive verdict in God’s courtroom when I look inside myself. The only reason I can sleep well at night is that even though my heart is filled with corruption and even though I am not doing my best to please him, I have in heaven at the Father’s right hand the beloved Son, who has not only done his best for himself but has fulfilled all righteousness for me in my place.”

“What does a man seek in this world? A position, or a throne? Man seeks peace of mind and the fear of Almighty God. As long as one knows that there is ajudgement day, he tries to keep his conscience clear and do what he can.”

Knows Men World Trying Mind Long Doe Clear Position This World Conscience Peace Of Mind Almighty Thrones Almighty God Judgement Day

Author:King Hussein I

“At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.”

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Book:The Portable Nietzsche

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.”

Doe Enjoy Sin Conscience Sinning Anglo Saxon

Author:Salvador de Madariaga

“It does not matter what religion you are as long as your conscience guides your words and actions. We are all reflections of God means we are all reflections of his image - which is LIGHT. There is only one God and that is the cosmic heart of the universe - whatever you choose to call him or her. The heart within us is what connects us to God (the heart of the universe). This super basic concept is preached in all religions. God is TRUTH and LIGHT. Only through your conscience do you connect to him.”

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Author:Suzy Kassem

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.”

Doe Dog Conscience Passing Passings

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.”

People Wells Doe Business Clear Conscience Stomach Very Happy Cheaper Clear Conscience Happy And Contented

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.”

Men Doe States Nations Church Source Conscience Separation Supreme Church And State Separation Of Church And State Supreme Being Source Of Strength

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

Way Doe Art Soul Feelings Dream Film Dark Rooms Conscience Filmmaker Deep Down Dark Room Film Directors Movie Director Art Films Film Directing Directing Film Film And Music

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“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

“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

“The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely conforms to the judgments of others. That is not real freedom, and it makes true love impossible, for if we are to love truly and freely, we must be able to give something that is truly our own to another. If our heart does not belong to us, asks Merton, how can we give it to another?”

Ifs Giving Heart Doe Real Able Asks Decision Impossible Masters Judgment Conscience Conform Immature Parrots Real Freedom Judgment Of Others

Author:Jon Katz

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