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“Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.”

Thinking Needs May Faces Force Nations Becoming Conscience Wake Up Misery Justify Fatigue Donors

Author:Kofi Annan

“Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.”

People Littles Persons Pain Lying Bits Little Bit Conscience Capacity Let Me Misery Suits Demon Honorable Love Pain

Book:The Space Between

Source: The Space Between

“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

“The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”

Religion Waiting Forget Taken Sacrifice Masters Conscience Madness Lays Misery Alcohol Mysterious Native Regions Savages Routes Peasants Unreal Crossroads Shady Guinea

Author:Jacques Roumain

“God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we've done or we're about to do. At times like this, it's wise to prayerfully consider whether we're offending God with our actions.”

Reason Done Might Action Levels Wise Listening Lows Conscience Misery Our Actions Nudge Offending Uneasiness Low Level

Author:Joyce Meyer

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

Source: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1945-1948

“There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.”

Feelings Wish Causes Sorrow Conscience Letters Misery Sentences Far Away

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?” “Um, I wasn’t aware that it did. Perhaps you have a guilty conscience.” “Charley.” “Is there something you need to get off your chest? Besides that skank I saw you with the other day?”

Needs Doe Sound Saws Mouths Conscience Misery Guilty Chests Bob Uncles Guilty Conscience Skanks

Book:Fifth Grave Past the Light

Source: Fifth Grave Past the Light

“Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.”

Men Should Firsts Eye Dies Justice Principles Century Honest Security Becoming Degrees Conscience Misery Ethical Entitled Industrious Workmen Ethical Principles

Book:People at work

Source: People at work

“Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism.”

Source: The Method of Freedom: An Errico Malatesta Reader

“Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.”

Kind Doe War Facts Earth Pain Individual Causes Community Responsibility Mankind Source Morality Ethics Conscience Misery Oppression Bitterness Sigh Sense Of Responsibility

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions