“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.” MenHardPhilosophySeemsTodayFoundFeltEnemyDangerousGreatnessFoolTomorrowConscienceIdealsTasksMarkExtraordinaryPhilosopherContradictionDisagreeableUnwantedQuestion Mark Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.” IfsThinkingMenMadeEnoughMomentsTogetherPurposeJusticeMoralHistoryIssuesInvolvedPeriodsConscienceMarkAidsConfusionGreat MenMutualTrumpetsMoral IssuesMutual Aid Author:Jane Addams
“To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.” WorldMindLittlesSoulCommonSecretConscienceMarkSatisfiedDespiseStampsCondemnationLittle MindsAcquittal Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.” IfsMadeSaidI CanWould BeMy OwnMistakeResponsibilityClearOne ThingSharePleaseConscienceMarkIntentionMeritFiftyMaking MistakesGood IntentionsComradeMy MistakesMaoClear Conscience Author:Deng Xiaoping
“Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.” KnowsMenMindBookReasonBodyTodaySpiritualMotherAuthorityConscienceIncreaseMarkAvailableEducatedAbundanceTendernessRelishEducated Man Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I despised everything that might restrict my forward momentum. She knew that bullets have no conscience. They speed past things and miss their marks as often as they hit them.” SelfMightPastMissingUnderstoodConscienceMarkSpeedPityBulletsMomentumPlaywrightDespisedSelf PityForward Momentum Author:James Ellroy
“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.” PeopleIfsWorldFirstsStatesReligionBeliefReligiousWrittenAtheismModernCenturyDutyCitizensExerciseLessonsConscienceMarkSpheresAmendmentsTimelessModern WorldUrgentFirst Amendment18th Century Author:Anthony Kennedy
“A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the good which thou hast performed and thou be grieved for the evil which thou hast committed, thou art a true believer.' The man said. 'In what doth a fault really consist' Muhammad said, 'when action pricketh thy conscience, forsake it.'” IfsKnowsMenArtSaidRealityMightActionEvilPleasureHe ManConscienceMarkFaultsCommittedBelieverMuhammadForsakeTrue Believer Author:Muhammad
“Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.” IfsMindPurposeCertainLeftFeltDoubtArmsConscienceShadowMarkBetrayalLondonTheatreRecognitionEveningBrandsBrotherhood Book:The Woman in White: A Novel Source: The Woman in White: A Novel
“We may gamble on outsmarting the law; we may even gamble on the leniency of man and the mercy of God-but no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience. Even should he think he has beaten his conscience into submission, his misdeeds still leave their mark upon him. Anyone who gambles against this fact has already lost his gamble.” ThinkingMenShouldMayStillsFactsLawLostLosingConscienceMercyMarkBeatenSubmissionGambleMercy Of GodMisdeedsLeniency Author:Sidney Greenberg