Best conscience & names Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.”

Firsts Heart Soul Feelings Light Together Past Names Speak Duty Reflection Conscience First Time Breaths Passionate Faculty Intensity Passionate Love

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.”

Men Names Conscience

Author:Pliny the Elder

“Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.”

Ifs Self Hands Names Seeing Duty Goes On Travel Conscience Sight Bullying Conductor Inexorable Upper Hand

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.”

People Government Eye Turns Names Crime Hero Goodness Conscience Blind Righteous Unwilling Snowden Blind Eyes Whistleblowers Bradley Manning

Author:Tom Morello

“How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"-and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?”

Ifs Knows Doe Different Ends Hands Names Easy Easier Conscience Murder Killing Retribution Different Names

Author:Neal Shusterman

“I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.”

Love Soul Young Literature Names Power Victory Easier Degrees Conscience Witty My Soul Seduction Gracious Attainment Power Of Love

Book:The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin

“It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.”

Men Evil Jesus Names Religious Alive Blood Conscience Victim Paris Stakes Heroic Pope Accused Ceremony Fanaticism Witchcraft Inquisition Benediction Butchery

Author:Camille Flammarion

“Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.”

Names Fame Conscience Slave Ill Fear Not

Book:The Poems of Edmund Waller

Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller

“But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God's name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. for our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.”

Ifs Knows Stills Happens Names Secret Teach Praying Conscience Praise Jew Doings Toleration Praise God Synagogue

Book:On the Jews & Their Lies

Source: On the Jews & Their Lies

“Conscience is the name which the orthodox give to their prejudices.”

Giving Names Conscience Prejudice Orthodox

Author:Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

“I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.”

“You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in our name, the free and undisturbed exercise of their religion. And...that all civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.”

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Author:Roger Sherman

“But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.”

Thinking Made I Can Soul Names Conscience Guilt Sake My Soul Folly Despise Submit Foe Sincerely Malice

Author:James Otis

“The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.”

Men World Want Soul Fall Names Heaven Sin Honest Duty Conscience Needles Honest Man Do Not Fear

Author:Ellen G. White

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

Names Conscience Trade Firm Cowardice Basil

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”

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Book:On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

“when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.”

Knows Want Giving Reason Names Fine Comfort Conscience Hunting Righteous Plausible

Book:No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

Source: No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger

“Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.”

Running Courses Names Conscience Mask Grants Refuge Asylums Capes Little Bee

Book:Little Bee: A Novel

Source: Little Bee: A Novel

“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”

Want Lasts Names Conscience

Author:Julia Quinn

“Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.”

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Book:The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

Source: The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

“Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.”

Source: The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There comes a time when a man finds himself in front of a dark uncrossable abyss, which he himself has spent years digging. He cannot go forward, and has no way back. Words have failed, tears won't help, and who would he call out to? He can't even remember his own name. Then the man sees that on this god's green earth there is but one true suffering: the torment of guilty conscience.”

Men Way Years Helping Earth Remember Suffering Names Dark Fronts Tears Conscience Green Guilty Torment Abyss Digging There Comes A Time Green Earth Guilty Conscience

Author:Ivo Andric

“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.”

“The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because society has the right and the duty to protect itself against the abuses which can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of freedom.”

Way Names Duty Protect Conscience Abuse Claims Abortion Pretext Euthanasia Toleration

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou shalt not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders. The church cannot remain silent before such an abomination. ...In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: stop the repression.”

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Author:Oscar Romero

“Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.”

“It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.”

Names Principles Conscience Stranger Expected Judgement Expenses Bows Andrew

Book:A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

Source: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

“Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.”

Men Names My Own Sin Holy Ambition Conscience Serving Cheeks Persuasion Reproach Upbraid

Author:William Laud

“The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.”

Joy Artist Names Causes Disease Conscience Silent Worthy Endless Torment Incurable Disease

Author:Georges Rouault

“Think in the name of Almighty God. We must first have a worldwide awakening of the public conscience, a spiritual revival, a moral regeneration, before there can be permanent peace and real economic recovery. To this end we do not need new laws, but a new spirit; we do not need a change of government, but a change of the human heart. There can be no peace, there will be no recovery without it. Therefore, with a change of heart, let's all make a new start.”

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