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“However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how the true artist-seer actually dies? I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human conscience.”

Humans Doe Artist Dies Causes Loneliness Produce Color Fool Shapes Conscience Sacred Suicide Reports Heavenly Consumption Contradictory Seers True Artists Scruples

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”

Doe Share Conscience Majority Cease Changing Your Life

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.”

Doe Mother Boys Conscience Guilt

Author:Evan Esar

“Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.”

“Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than men of fifty, which, you must admit is very wonderful. Sometimes, the Angel comes much later, because the children are naughty and won't learn their lessons or practice their scales. And sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children have a wicked heart or a bad conscience.”

Men Heart Children Littles Doe Sometimes Play Practice Wonderful Lessons Six Conscience Angel Scales Fifty Wicked Cradle Naughty Fiddle Prodigies

Author:Gaston Leroux

“A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”

Men Doe Suffering Goodness Conscience

Book:The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.”

“Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?”

“Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and our nation to choose conscience over ease can.”

World Children Doe Nations Community Teaching Conscience Our Children Flesh Locals Ease Changing The World Farms Factories Leafs Local Community Family Farms

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?”

Should Kind Doe Moving Doors Particular Pride Please Taste Conscience Asking Mere Paint Dues Doctrine Holiness Dislike Keepers Reluctance True Ones

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon?”

Kind Doe Matter Born Skills Conscience Gray Brotherhood Pardon Vishous Compunction Gray Matter Lover Unbound

Book:Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.”

Men Doe Sometimes Suffering Sex Conscience Remorse Being Loved

Book:Jude the Obscure: Easyread Edition

Source: Jude the Obscure: Easyread Edition

“To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which does not necessarily strengthen conscience and the ability to be compassionate. It can also corrupt them. Once one has seen such images, one has started down the road of seeing more - and more. Images transfix. Images anesthetize.”

Doe Suffering Ability Seeing One Thing Conscience Compassionate Down The Road

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?” “Um, I wasn’t aware that it did. Perhaps you have a guilty conscience.” “Charley.” “Is there something you need to get off your chest? Besides that skank I saw you with the other day?”

Needs Doe Sound Saws Mouths Conscience Misery Guilty Chests Bob Uncles Guilty Conscience Skanks

Book:Fifth Grave Past the Light

Source: Fifth Grave Past the Light

“To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. Nonviolent actions does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Nor does it have to petition those in power to do something about a situation. It can face the authorities with a new fact and say: Accept this new situation which we have created.”

Needs Doe Facts Action Faces Speak Force Peace Situation Accepting Nice Effects Authority Conscience Violent Being Nice Resorts Meek Petitions New Situations

Author:Barbara Deming

“Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable to God. Moreover, we believe the gospel isn't in need of state endorsement or assistance. Wall Street may need government bailouts but the Damascus Road never does.”

Want Needs Believe May Doe States Government Politics Support Streets Wall Worship Conscience Conservative Believe In God Acceptable Assistance Endorsements Bailouts

Author:Russell D. Moore

“It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.”

“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”

Doe Reason Mistake Wise Conscience Making Mistakes

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised

“A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.”

Ifs Knows World Long Doe Honest Honesty Solitude Conscience Guilt Guilty Witness Miserable Guilty Conscience

Author:Seneca the Younger

“A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.”

Men Doe War Lines Conscience Warning Highways

Author:Frank A. Clark

“Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one's belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one's right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.”

Believe Mean Doe Belief Liberty Share Conscience Libertarian Acknowledge Libertarianism

Book:The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

Source: The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy

“For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character directly. It does not say what to do and what not to do. It never gives you any commandments. It simply gives you a technique for becoming more aware, for being more alert, watchful, witnessing.”

Giving Doe Character Consciousness Meditation Becoming Needed Conscience Dignity Function Technique Commandments Becoming More

Author:Rajneesh

“You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does.”

Ifs Knows Want Life Trying Mind Doe Eye Turns Principles Inspirational Life Conscience Ideals Sight Blind Bother Curtains Bothered Blind Eyes

Author:Chidananda Saraswati

“With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this bread of angels whence you will draw all the energy you need to fight inner battles. Because true happiness, dear friends, does not consist in the pleasures of the world or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we have only if we are pure in heart and mind.”

“How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.”

Way Should Doe Accepting Integrity Conscience Corruption Conformity Another Way

Author:Kenneth Tynan

“I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come down to? Nothing but something horrible and useless, nothing but a way of shedding blood that is called a crime when an individual commits it, but is sadly called "justice" when society brings it about. Make no mistake, you lawmakers and judges, in the eyes of God as in those of conscience, what is a crime when individuals do it is no less an offense when society commits the deed.”

“In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today is ever more rare... In reality, only in silence does man succeed in hearing in the depth of his conscience the voice of God, which really makes him free. And vacations can help to rediscover and cultivate this indispensable interior dimension of human life.”

“Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.”

Want Doe Asks Answers Demand Conscience Horse Difficulty Riders

Author:Alois Podhajsky

“There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.”

World Doe Soul Body Emotion Worry Conscience Weight Breathe Horrible Abstract Inability Tiredness

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“The printed page is a missionary that can go anywhere and do so at minimum cost. It enters closed lands and reaches all strata of society. It does not grow weary. It needs no furlough. It lives longer than any missionary. It never gets ill. It penetrates through the mind to the heart and conscience. It has and is producing results everywhere. It has often lain dormant yet retained its life and bloomed years later.”

“It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.”

Men Should Heart Doe States America Spirit Church Atheism Cry Conscience Raises Strikes Every Man Presidential Borders

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.”

Doe Action Individual Enjoy Decision Virtue Mankind Conscience Practicals Agents Luxury Revolutionary Consistent Observers Rules For Radicals

Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.”

Years Doe Has Beens America Black White Four Blood Land Hundred Conscience Murder Victim Racist Shed Coins Register Impunity

Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.”

Thinking World Should Humans Doe Might Voice Human Beings Mistake This World Conscience

Book:Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

Source: Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

“If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.”

Ifs Heart Doe Conscience Theology

Author:J. I. Packer

“A society that is in its higher circles and middle levels widely believed to be a network of smart rackets does not produce men with an inner moral sense; a society that is merely expedient does not produce men of conscience. A society that narrows the meaning of 'success' to the big money and in its terms condemns failure as the chief vice, raising money to the plane of absolute value, will produce the sharp operator and the shady deal. Blessed are the cynical, for only they have what it takes to succeed.”

Men Doe Bigs Values Term Levels Deals Moral Middle Produce Higher Succeed Smart Conscience Absolutes Blessed Vices Circles Chiefs Planes Cynical Racket Shady Operators Raising Money

Author:C. Wright Mills

“I discovered that resolution of conflict comes from people being able to express their own feelings and their own needs in the face of another. Making agreements and setting goals without building upon the feelings of the parties involved is empty, because it does not consider the vulnerabilities of our own humanity.”

People Needs Doe Feelings Able Faces Humanity Goal Leadership Party Building Involved Conflict Conscience Empty Setting Settings Vulnerability Agreement Resolution Setting Goals

Author:Peter Block

“Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.”

Kind Doe War Facts Earth Pain Individual Causes Community Responsibility Mankind Source Morality Ethics Conscience Misery Oppression Bitterness Sigh Sense Of Responsibility

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.”

Heart Doe Lasts Conscience Guilt Substance Iron Metals Rust

Author:Robert South

“A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.”

Wells Doe Remember Politics Politician Conscience Constituents

Author:Melvin Laird

“It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.”

People Doe States Reason Support Military Duty Conscience Notes Killing Refuse Active Curious Bureaucracy Exemption

Author:Karl Hess

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