Best conscience & faces Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.”

Mean Facts Action Faces Evil Sin Decision Goodness Conscience Have Faith Our Actions Malice

Author:Pope Francis

“Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.”

Thinking Needs May Faces Force Nations Becoming Conscience Wake Up Misery Justify Fatigue Donors

Author:Kofi Annan

“The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content, And the gay Conscience of a life well spent, Calm ev'ry thought, inspirit ev'ry grace, Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.”

Wells Heart Faces Joy Grace Gay Conscience Calm Ease Affluence

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.”

Men Made Faces Sound Greater Conscience Letters Tests Blessed Rats Naughty Readiness Regularity Postman Easiness

Book:The History of Pendennis: Christie's Collections

Source: The History of Pendennis: Christie's Collections

“The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!”

Faces Path Grace Cry Duty Calling Conscience Face To Face

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the morality of a situation. It gets frustrating and demoralizing. This is precisely where character comes in. All throughout history special people have felt compelled to do what they objectively saw as right and good - even in the face of humiliation or rejection or expulsion or torture or death. That is because they believed that certain ideas were more important than individual well-being.”

“What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.”

Trying Humans Faces Social Business Conscience Paradigm Human Faces New Business

Book:Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

Source: Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop

“I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.”

Feels Wells Sometimes Seems Faces Work Doubt Duty Conscience Profound Satisfaction Following Superiors Emptiness Midst Spontaneous Obeying Ennui Sneer Fatality

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“People of conscience in our leadership in Washington have been scared off by the right and the fossil fuel lobbies. They won't even use the term "sustainability" or "climate change" in an energy bill, which is ludicrous on its face. It completely ignores the elephant in the room that we're all dealing with. The average American doesn't even believe climate change is real, they think it's all a hoax.”

“We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.”

People World Kind War Faces Effort Principles Struggle Civilization Conscience Consequence Destruction Silent Refuse Partners Civil War Relentless Joining

Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.”

Humans Faces Lying Horror Racism Conscience Victim Injustice Commit Prisoner Oppressors Facing The Truth Sears Human Equality

Author:Alveda King

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”

World Believe Stills Truth Faces Spiritual Voice Accepting Courage This World Conscience Minorities Hopeless Tyrants Small Voice

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance.”

Humans Soul Reason Faces Growth Kindness Sun Moon Despair Conscience Miracle Persistence Endurance Superstitions Finest Human Soul Small Miracles

Book:Pandora

Source: Pandora

“Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart.”

Men Heart May Faces Causes Judging Conscience Bad Heart

Author:William Shakespeare

“Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.”

Looks Faces Names Conscience Caring Awakening

Book:The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

Source: The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

“That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.”

Men Faces Saws Conscience Mask Bishops

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.”

Source: The Time of My Life

“I have a serious question." "I will give a serious answer." "Can a god be killed?" The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist." "What's the difference?" "The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.”

“What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.”

Looks Kind Made Moments Helping Faces Joy Voice Simple Gone Plans Pure Conscience Breaths Calm Flash Envied Peace And Joy Hale Backup Plan B Pure Happiness

Author:Ally Carter

“In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient - they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.”

“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

“It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.”

Thinking Knows Men May Faces Suffering Crime Emotional Regret Solitude Conscience Raises Guilt Faults Committed Guilty Remorse Sincerely

Book:The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

Source: The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

“I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place by their virtue and talents; a simple and happy society, where the goodness of humanity is expanded to the maximum, and the evilness of humanity is constrained to the maximum; honesty, trust, kindness, and helping each other are everyday occurrences in life; there is not so much anger and anxiety, a pure smile on everyone’s face.”

Needs Country Helping Faces Humanity Wish Simple Kindness Virtue Talent Honesty Citizens Pure Goodness Anxiety Conscience Everyday Our Country Minimum Maximum Helping Each Other Evilness

Author:Xu Zhiyong

“A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.”

“Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the point where one may overcome even ferocious wild animals. Mind and technique become one in true karate.”

World Mind May Faces Animal Clear Conscience Overcoming Train Strive Technique Honestly Developing Strife Enabling Karate Wild Animal Clear Conscience

Author:Gichin Funakoshi

“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

“Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.”

I Can Hands Faces Blood Masters Conscience Let Me Vampire Torture Kill Me

Author:Dwight Frye

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