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“My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.”

Thinking Firsts War Jobs Social Acting Hair Projects Conscience Vietnam Vietnam War

Author:Clarke Peters

“Above all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives those who do not believe and who do not seek faith. Given the premise, and this is fundamental, that the mercy of God is limitless for those who turn to him with a sincere and contrite heart, the issue for the unbeliever lies in obeying his or her conscience.”

Ifs Firsts Believe Heart Christian Lying Turns Asks Limits Conscience Mercy Fundamentals Forgiving Ask Me Sincere Believe In God Premises Obeying Mercy Of God

Author:Pope Francis

“The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.”

Firsts Ends Happens Science Belief Highest Conscience Court Conviction Physicist Lawfulness

Author:Max Planck

“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.”

Firsts Heart Soul Feelings Light Together Past Names Speak Duty Reflection Conscience First Time Breaths Passionate Faculty Intensity Passionate Love

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.”

Firsts Existence Poverty Conscience Charity Ill Awakening Proof Unjust Robbers Organised

Book:Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms

Source: Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms

“It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey them and carry them out into act, the power of conscience would be so strengthened and improved within them, that it would soon become, what it evidently is intended to be, "a connecting principle between the creature and the Creator."”

Ifs Men Firsts Would Be Certain Principles Childhood Creatures Conscience Creator Honestly Connecting

Author:John Campbell Shairp

“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

“The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellow-men. But the truly little reverse the thing. The primary object with them is to secure the applause of their fellow-men; and having effected this, the approbation of God and their own conscience may follow on as they can.”

Men Firsts May Littles Done Opinion Atheism Objects Conscience Gains Fellows Secure Primaries Reverse Fellow Man Applause

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.”

Firsts Evil Crime Judgment Conscience Guilt Punishment Guilty Seats Nemo

Author:Juvenal

“A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.”

Firsts Sin Steps Conscience Sinner First Steps Vigilant Hardened Reluctance Sturdy

Author:Francis Atterbury

“Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls; Conscience is but a work that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!”

Firsts Soul Use Dream Law Strong Arms Conscience Awe Coward Babbling Strong Arms

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives.”

“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

“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.”

“When the epistemologists' concept of consciousness first became popular, it seems to have been in part a transformed application of the Protestant notion of conscience."Consciousness" was imported to play in the mental world the role played by light in the mechanical world.”

World Firsts Has Beens Play Light Seems Consciousness Roles Conscience Concepts Notion Application Transformed Protestants

Author:Gilbert Ryle

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“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.”

Firsts Long Doe Political Actors Father Social Acting Responsibility Taught Long Time Intellectual Conscience Profession Accepted

Author:Christopher Reeve

“The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.”

Mind Firsts Body Next Prayer Conscience Almighty Almighty God Petitions

Author:Seneca the Younger

“In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens. A man has at least as good a right to choose his wife, as he has to choose his religion. His taste may not suit his neighbors; but so long as his deportment is correct, they have no right to interfere with his concerns.”

Men Firsts May Long Government Wife Ought Citizens Taste Conscience Concern Affection Neighbor Suits Interfere

Author:Lydia M. Child

“A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.”

“What happened to our nation on a September day set in motion the first great struggle of a new century. The enemies who struck us are determined and they are resourceful. They will not be stopped by a sense of decency or a hint of conscience--but they will be stopped.”

Firsts War Nations Enemy Struggle Happened Century Conscience Determined September Decency Hints Resourceful

Author:George W. Bush

“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”

“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another...”

People Should Firsts Asks History Modern Conscience Complaining Occasions Obscurity Modern Poetry

Author:W. H. Auden

“The kid I was when I first left home Was looking for his freedom and a life of his own But the freedom that he found wasn't quite as sweet When the truth was known I have prayed for America I was made for America I can't let go till she comes around Until the land of the free Is awake and can see And until her conscience has been found.”

Firsts Has Beens Made I Can Home Kids America Found Left Peace Known Land Sweet Letting Go Conscience Awake Land Of The Free Can't Let Go

Author:Jackson Browne

“A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! Conscience and killing cannot be together.”

Firsts Together Enemy Flower Conscience Army Killing Crush First Crush

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I've sort of prided myself on playing characters with conscience. The first way I go about creating a character is looking at that area of conscience. What have they done, and what has it cost.”

Way Firsts Done Character Cost Creating Conscience Areas

Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief - to prohibit certain less-favored strains of conscience - it may be the non-believer who is among the first to be condemned. A coercive monopoly of belief threatens everyone, whether we are talking about those who search the philosophies of men or follow the words of God.”

Ifs Men Firsts May Philosophy Certain Belief Talking Conscience Believer Streams Word Of God Strain Monopoly Non Believer

Author:Mitt Romney

“First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.”

Firsts Talent Discipline Conscience Absolutes

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Ignoring your conscience is the first violation of Truth.”

Firsts Conscience Violation

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Your mind is reason, your heart is your conscience, and in your heart - you will find truth. This is why Truth is always recognized first by the heart. Our minds are simply there to reason with our conscience. The only thinking that matters is that which passes through the heart. Your heart is what connects you to the light of God. He who acts through his heart, truly stands by God.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Heart Matter Reason Light Truth Is Conscience

Author:Suzy Kassem

“The individual who dares commit a crime is guilty in a two-fold sense; first, he is guilty against human conscience, and, above all, he is guilty against the State in arrogating to himself one of its most precious privileges.”

Firsts Humans Two States Individual Crime Conscience Privilege Dare Commit Guilty Folds

Book:The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Source: The Selected Works of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

“I toast the Pope, but I toast conscience first.”

Firsts Conscience Pope Toasts

Author:John Henry Newman

“Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.”

Men Firsts Self Form Awareness Exercise Degrees Conscience Men And Women Adversity Self Awareness Extras Fasting Identifying

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.”

Firsts Children Action Christian Force Nations Causes Waiting Born Religious Justice Compassion Liberty Greater Conscience Mercy Sick Constitution Needy Persecuted Religious Liberty

Author:Mitt Romney

“Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.”

Men Feels Firsts Government Nations Religious Liberty Design Authority Highest Conscience Constitution Upset Trusted Religious Liberty

Author:Mitt Romney

“President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.”

Firsts Order President Religious Liberty Conscience Organization President Obama Regulation Religious Liberty

Author:Mitt Romney

“I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of finding myself wanting & defective. Why fear the criticism of others when you, yourself, are first out of the critical gate? If self-denigration is the race I am the winner, even before the starting gun. Collect the bets.”

Ifs Firsts Self Lost Ability Race Findings Gun Conscience Criticism Starting Critical Passing Passings Winner Gates Defective Finding Myself Criticism Of Others

Book:Teacher Man: A Memoir

Source: Teacher Man: A Memoir

“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”

Ifs Firsts Stills Drink Please Conscience Pope Primacy

Author:John Henry Newman

“A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.”

People Firsts Kind Persons Reason Able Accepting Teach Rocks Healthy Daughter Conscience Boat Rejection Be Kind Passive Outrage First Person Strengthening Your Daughter

Author:Martha Stout

“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.”

“In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?”

Ifs Writing Firsts Book Would Be Past Night Order Deals Mankind Bears Understood Conscience Madness Mad Lifetime Including Contrary Theme Immense Biblical Stamps

Book:Night

Source: Night

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe”

Firsts Use Strong Conscience Awe Coward

Author:William Shakespeare

“Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.”

“Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.”

Men Should Firsts Eye Dies Justice Principles Century Honest Security Becoming Degrees Conscience Misery Ethical Entitled Industrious Workmen Ethical Principles

Book:People at work

Source: People at work

“The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.”

“The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.”

Firsts Sin Conscience Philosophical Punishment Sinner

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.”

Ifs Firsts Looks Reason Eye Passion Enemy Failing Duty Discipline Conscience Faults Insight Each Day Over You Within You Self Discipline Untrue

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest, and in later times by deep religious feelings, confirmed by instruction and habit, all combined, constitute our moral sense or conscience.”

Source: Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies

“To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Night Justice Worry Subjects Talent Essentials Ethics Conscience Endless Journalist Just One Premises Sleepless Nights

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by continuous probing, prodding, and questioning of the social conditions under which man exists and tries to better himself. One of the first moves of a dictatorship is to stifle the artists and thinkers who have the ability to stir up dissent from any prescribed dogma which might enslave them. Because the artist can arouse the curiosity and conscience of his community, he becomes a threat to those who have taken power.”

Source: Challenge For The Actor

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