Best conscience & hard Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The diary of a young girl

“There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.”

People Hard States Class Honest Conscience Intention Manage Bewitched

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.”

Country Hard Shows Principles Judging Conscience Following Sentences Trials Passing Passings Cards Our Country Patriotic Passing Out

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.”

“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

“The villager, born humbly and bred hard, Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, In action simply just, in conscience clear, By guilt untainted, undisturb'd by fear, His means but scanty, and his wants but few, Labor his business, and his pleasure too, Enjoys more comforts in a single hour Than ages give the wretch condemn'd to power.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of C. Churchill: In Three Volumes. with the Life of the Author

“Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.”

Hard Hands Conscience Sinner Laborers

Author:Anne Bradstreet

“I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.”

Hard Sleep Hard Work Bed Late Conscience

Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“A good man: body serves his will and enjoys hard work, clear intellect that understands the truths of nature, full of passion for life but controlled by his will, well-developed conscience, loves beauty in art and nature, despises inferior morality, respects himself and others.”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.”

People Should Believe Ideas Hard Fighting Belief Rights Protect Conscience

Book:Common Ground

Source: Common Ground

“In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.”

Kind Hard Style Conscience Seasons Hot Weather

Author:Jason Statham

“I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.”

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Author:Cody Johnson

“I know people's problems: the problems of those who work hard, who must slave away. The couples who have two incomes but who can nevertheless barely cover their rent. The people who get stuck in traffic on their way to work. The people who have to wait in vain for a train to come just as they are supposed to be picking up their children from daycare. I can say with a clear conscience to those people: I understand your problems. And I will do all I can to decrease them.”

“Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“I suspect he's sweet on Sophie and doesn't like to see her work too hard.' Tessa was glad to hear it. She'd felt awful about her reaction to Sophie's scar, and the thought that Sophie had a male admirer - and a handsome one like that- eased her conscience slightly. 'Perhaps he's in love with Agatha', she said. 'I hope not. I intend to marry Agatha myself. She may be a thousand years old, but she makes an incomparable jam tart. Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal.”

Source: Clockwork Angel

“...my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.”

Hard Reality Conscience Unicorn

Book:Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)

Source: Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)

“One thing I learned as a journalist is that there is at least one disgruntled person in every workplace in America - and at least double that number with a conscience. Hard as they try, they simply can't turn their heads away from an injustice when they see one taking place.”

Trying Persons Hard America Turns Numbers One Thing Conscience Injustice Journalist Workplace Disgruntled

Author:Michael Moore

“It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.”

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Author:Richard Baxter

“It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people of conscience and people of faith, has shown the soul of our country.”

“Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.”

Hard Powerful Hard Work Anxiety Conscience Pairs Worthwhile

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift.”

Men Hard Seems Values Enjoy Trouble Hard Work Conscience Significance Toil Exaggerated Mistrust Effortless

Book:Leisure: The Basis of Culture

Source: Leisure: The Basis of Culture

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