Best conscience & interest Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.”

Men Country Interest Pleasure Conscience Sells Betray

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.”

Men Desire Strong Interest Half Enemy Watches Break Masters Conscience Fellows Violent Crush Gates Approval Dread Herds Vigilant Censure

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice.”

Men Doe Interest Justice Liberty Conscience Regard Sake Liberalism Consistent Maximum Something Better Peace And Justice Dissatisfied Reformers

Author:Ralph Barton Perry

“It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.”

Should Interest Honest Conscience Workers Favors Punishment Legislation Desirable Competitors Employers Humane Shields Disadvantages

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force.”

Mean Self Force Interest Conscience Prejudice Unhappy Agents Deceiving Stubborn Self Interest Ingenious Persuasive

Author:William C. Bryant

“Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.”

Art States Reason Might Interest History Conscience Privilege Obligation Ruins Betray Justified Oath Treaties Roman Empire Inconvenient Flattered

Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.”

Life Doe Reason Moments Might Interest Results Ought Intellectual Conscience Advantage Areas Determination Prejudice Strict

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.”

Interest Sleep Terrible Conscience Awakening Grain Opium

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.”

Interest Office Conscience Servant National Interests Public Servants

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest”

Men World Order Interest Honor Conscience Credit Convinced Tranquility

Author:Richard Steele

“Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!”

“I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.”

Thinking Interest Protect Conscience

Author:Arlen Specter

“The word "truth" itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience as the sole arbiter of whether in any particular instance the evidence (or the standing of those proclaiming it) warrants a belief; it becomes something to be laid down by authority, something which has to believed in the interest of unity of the organized effort and which may have to be altered as the exigencies of this organized effort require it.”

May Found Individual Belief Interest Effort Particular Authority Conscience Evidence Standing Unity Cease Instance Organized Sole Altered Warrants Proclaiming Arbiter

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The Interfaith Alliance has to become an ongoing sustaining and powerful movement whose interest is to prove that religion has a healing side as well as a killing side, and that democracy is the consequence of conscience”

Wells God Spirituality Sides Interest Powerful Healing Democracy Movement Prove Conscience Consequence Killing Ongoing Alliances Interfaith Sustaining

Author:Bill Moyers

“The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.”

Knows Self Interest Fame Conscience Difficulty Self Interest

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)

“Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience is cultivated by others, by the vested interests, by the establishment. Consciousness is yours. It is individual, it is not collective. Conscience is part of the mob psychology. Consciousness gives you dignity because it gives you individuality. It gives you rebellion, it makes you capable of saying yes or no of your own accord. There is no foreign agency manipulating you in the name of religion, morality, etcetera.”

“You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.”

Wells Reading Social Interest Conscience Feminist Bombs Length Feminine Holocaust Signals Feathers Bans Lace Knickers

Author:Elizabeth Bibesco

“The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world.”

“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

“Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.”

Motivational Interest Conscience Temptation Scream Self Control Will Power Power And Control Self Power Discipline And Self Control

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.”

Happiness Three Force Interest Forever Mystery Authority Capable Conscience Weak Miracle Conquer Rebel

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep rally of temptations. And your mind may put some selfish spin on the ball, rationalizing that it's okay to veer away from the ethical route. When we run into conflicts between ethical "shoulds" and our selfish "wants," we all argure out ways to con our conscience. But take pains to listen, because it has your best interests at heart.”

“... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.”

Long Interest Poor Source Conscience Sick Prejudice Victim Behalf Pro Life Marginalized

Author:Barack Obama

“The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.”

Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation

“The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.”

Body Interest Liberty Mankind Exercise Judgment Conscience Enjoyment Unalienable Rights

Author:Ezra Stiles

“The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.”

Ifs Persons Jobs Interest Leadership Company Conscience Maturity Contribution Mature Mature Person

Book:People and Performance

Source: People and Performance

“I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.”

Source: Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses

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