“No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.” ChildrenStillsLife IsCultureCompassionMoralPrinciplesTeachProgressConscienceBuiltAll ThingsBottomTalesIdiotMeaninglessFragmentsRelativismMoral PrinciplesSignifying Author:Michael Novak
“The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience good men; what was bad in them, what wrought moral evil and cruelty, treason to truth and progress, was not at all in their intentions, in their purpose, in their personal character, but in their opinions.” MenHumansCharacterPurposeSufferingHumanityEvilMoralOpinionHellProgressHe ManStandardsConscienceIntentionCrueltyOppressionGood ManOppressedInjuredGood IntentionsTreasonHuman SufferingPersonal CharacterMoral Evil Author:Robert Briffault
“The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.” YearsEndsSpiritProgressBalanceDrawsConscienceMaturityInquiryRequest Author:Joseph Goebbels
“Humanity's moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely.” HumanityMoralProgressConscienceMoral Conscience Author:Cheikh Anta Diop
“Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.” AmericaSpaceProgressConsciencePrimitiveTechnologicalDeep DownRefinementSimulationBluffs Book:America Source: America
“A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.” PeopleBelieveSchoolOrderJesusBeliefDifficultBornClassProgressFindingsConscienceEnglandIncomeTalesFairyFairy TaleSectionsVirginsSalaryWhalesIngeniousJonahTwister Author:Upton Sinclair
“We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.” PeopleIfsMenWarStatesHelpingScienceUsedForceSpaceUnitedKnowledgeTechnologyUnited StatesRightsProgressSeaPositionDependsOceanConscienceTheaterIllNuclearPresidentialSailScience And TechnologyNew KnowledgeOcean SeaKnowledge GainedSpace Science Author:John F. Kennedy
“It is impossible to have progress without conscience” ProgressImpossibleConscience Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“If you facilitate your subordinates' steady progress in meaningful work, make that progress salient to them, and treat them well, they will experience the emotions, motivations, and perceptions necessary for great performance.” IfsWellsMotivationLeadershipEmotionProgressPerceptionConsciencePerformancesTreatsMeaningfulSteadySubordinatesFacilitateMeaningful WorkGreat PerformanceSteady Progress Author:Teresa Amabile