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“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.”

Thinking World Kind Doe Made Certain Individual Views Responsibility Known Fate Impossible Depends Ethics Conscience Essence Excuse Point Of View Ethical Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Gyorgy Lukacs

“perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.”

Social Results Responsibility Known Beauty Modern Duty Conscience Craving Civics Civic Responsibility

Book:The Bent Twig

Source: The Bent Twig

“Images anesthetize. An event known through photographs certainly becomes more real than it would have been if one had never seen the photographs ... But after repeated exposure to images it also becomes less real. ... 'concerned' photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it.”

Ifs Has Beens Real Done Known Events Photography Conscience Concerned Photograph Exposure

Author:Susan Sontag

“Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.”

Reason Known Virtue Duty Conscience Relation Revelations

Author:Archibald Alexander

“A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.”

“The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only taken her self-respect but all rights of person; the fruits of her own industry; her opportunities of education; the exercise of her judgment, her own conscience, her own will.”

Persons Has Beens Self Religion Opportunity Church Known Taken Rights Industry Exercise Judgment Conscience Fruit Organized Self Respect Robbery

Book:Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate

Source: Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate

“Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of the fact that the wrongs we have done or imagined will never be punished or known--we nonetheless feel that the clutch in the stomach, that chill upon the soul, that self-inflicted misery called guilt.”

Feels Soul Self Done Facts Able Known Conscience Guilt Misery Spite Stomach Chill Clutch Self Inflicted

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,) By Nature did what was by Law requir'd; They, who the written Rule and never known, Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone: To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead; And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.”

Ifs Law Known Written Conscience Gentiles Indictment

Book:The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684

Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume II: Poems, 1681-1684

“Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.”

Men Self Joy Known Source Conscience

Author:Charles Simmons

“The great chastisement of a knave is not to be known, but to know himself.”

Knows Known Conscience Knaves Chastisement

Author:Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“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 true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.”

Wells May War Christian Known Conscience Warfare

Book:HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

Source: HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS

“Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.”

May Action Jesus Christ Known Conscience Jesus Christ Thee Revelations Grants Our Thoughts Conform Pardon Saviour Offence Omission Words And Actions

Author:Timothy Pickering

“There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.”

Way War Ends Responsibility Known Conscience Holocaust Mum Unspeakable Shunning Looking Away

Author:Richard von Weizsaecker