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“The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation-must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“I accept that all photography is voyeuristic and exploitative, and obviously I live with my own guilt and conscience. It's part of the test and I don't have a problem with it.”

Problem My Own Accepting Photography Conscience Tests Guilt

Author:Martin Parr

“A consoling thought: what matters is not what we do, but the spirit in which we do it. Others suffer too; so much so that there is nothing in the world but suffering; the problem is simply to keep a clear conscience.”

World Matter Problem Spirit Suffering Clear Conscience What Matters Consoling Clear Conscience

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“I can't be a part of the problem. I hate the idea of a label just as much as anyone else but I'm with who I'm with, I love who I love and I'm if not a better actress than I was yesterday and my personal life should have no effect on that. I think that the injustice of people staying in the closet is more than I can bear with a clear conscience and I couldn't sleep at night if I was a part of that problem, if I was part of the lies.”

“[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics.”

Ifs Problem Culture Strong Nations Wish Ethics Conscience Army Jew Boundaries Being True Extensions Crops Colony

Author:I. L. Peretz

“There are nations that resist, voices that attempt to diminish the urgency or dismiss the science, or declare, either in word or indifference, that this is not our problem to solve. Well, let me tell you, it is our problem to solve... To the reticent nations, including the United States, I say this: There is such a thing as a global conscience.”

Wells States Problem Nations Voice United United States Conscience Let Me Climate Change Including Solve Indifference Diminish Urgency

Author:Paul Martin

“I wrote a call to the contemporary Muslim conscience, saying to the ordinary people that we might not like the video or the cartoons, but that violence certainly isn't the right answer. I don't think laws are going to solve the problem.”

People Thinking Problem Might Law Answers Violence Ordinary Conscience Solve Video Contemporary Cartoon Ordinary People Right Answers

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“I know people's problems: the problems of those who work hard, who must slave away. The couples who have two incomes but who can nevertheless barely cover their rent. The people who get stuck in traffic on their way to work. The people who have to wait in vain for a train to come just as they are supposed to be picking up their children from daycare. I can say with a clear conscience to those people: I understand your problems. And I will do all I can to decrease them.”

“It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.”

People Problem Conscience Humanitarian Circles Minorities Surprising Manifestos

Book:The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

Source: The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street

“When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.”

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Author:Muhammad Yunus

“I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no.”

“In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle, the main goal must be to awaken people’s consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.”

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Book:Archeofuturism

Source: Archeofuturism

“I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.”

People Looks Persons Problem Revolution Conscience Concerned Missions Violent Pot Look At Me No Problem Look At Me Now

Author:Pol Pot

“The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.”

“The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.”

Way Trying Problem Leadership Fields Conscience Solve Best Way Explaining

Author:Jonah Lehrer

“It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines. (...) If someone asks me how I can sleep at night knowing that my arms have killed millions of people, I respond that I have no problem sleeping, my conscience is clean. I constructed arms to defend my country.”

People Ifs I Can Country Facts Problem Night Asks Sleep Millions Knowing Arms Conscience Machines Responsible Clean Ask Me No Problem

Author:Mikhail Kalashnikov