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“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”

Peace Justice Higher Conscience Court Peace And Justice Peace Justice

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.”

Mind Mean Self Reason Use Form Individual Higher Discipline Fit Conscience Concerned Absence Rational Self Respect Phases Degrade Unfree

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“Formerly, a nation that broke the peace, did not trouble to try and prove to the world that it was done solely from higher motives. ... Now war has a bad conscience. Now every nation assures us that it is bleeding for a human cause, the fate of which hangs in the balance of its victory ... No nation dares to admit the guilt of blood before the world.”

World Trying Humans War Done Nations Causes Fate Trouble Blood Balance Victory Higher Prove Conscience Guilt Dare Broke War Of The Worlds Motive Bleeding

Author:Ellen Key

“One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.”

Should Self States Voice Development Higher Ordinary Conscience Servant Higher Self

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“We're still growing into that place of higher consciousness; we are becoming a global conscience. The idea is to unravel the onion and let go of the ego and evolve to that place where you perceive everything to be a beautiful experience rather than a daunting experience.”

Stills Ideas Beautiful Consciousness Growing Becoming Higher Letting Go Ego Conscience Evolve Perceive Higher Consciousness Onions Beautiful Experiences

Author:Jon Anderson

“Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether a particular rule of law was consonant with principles of higher law. This view is reflected in John Adams' statement that it would be an 'absurdity' for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, 'against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.'”

“The purer your heart, the lighter your spirit will be. The lighter your spirit, the closer to light it will float. The closer to light it is permitted to go, the higher it will float. The higher it floats, the closer to God you will be. Heaven has seven layers. The vibrations of your good deeds, which will be reflected by the weight of your conscience and the purity of your heart, will determine the layer in which your soul will reside. Your goal is to make your heart as light as a feather. The heavier the heart, the more chained to this hell it will remain.”

Heart Soul Light Spirit Heaven Goal Hell Higher Conscience Weight Seven Determine Deeds Your Soul Purity Layers Good Deeds Feathers Floats Vibrations Lighters Chained

Author:Suzy Kassem

“The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.”

Source: The Descent of Man

“The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything”

Feelings Moral Kindness Higher Conscience Consideration Milk Rats Decency Friendliness Scruples Rodents Compunction

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.”

Heart Spiritual Levels Higher Weapons Conscience Strikes Opponents Cheeks Offensive Higher Level Audacity Turn The Other Cheek

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.”

Has Beens Done Higher Conscience Saved Athens Leniency

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.”

Government Law Political Politics Higher Words Of Wisdom Conscience African American Black Power Higher Law

Author:Stokely Carmichael

“Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“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.”

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Author:C. Wright Mills