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“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”

“I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST.”

Ifs Knows Lasts Film Certain Three Belief Lost Powerful Moral Conscience Weak All Time Artistic Relax Entertaining Commandments Jungle Standpoint

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.”

Suffering Three Forget Our Lives Events Birth Conscience Life And Death Great Events Birth Life Birth Life And Death

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.”

Men Done Three Justice Divine Quiet Conscience Riches Guilty Wrath Three Things Undone Guilty Conscience Divine Justice

Book:The select works of ... Thomas Brooks

Source: The select works of ... Thomas Brooks

“It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.”

“There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.”

Writing Book Three Party Six Conscience South Dinner Permit Good Book Three Things Worth Living Dinner Party Life Worth Living

Author:Cyril Connolly

“In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.”

Source: Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day

“Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.”

Body Mother Three Half Baby Conscience Victim Abortion Quarters Pro Life

Author:Mother Teresa

“There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.”

Source: Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams

“There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.”

Happiness Three Force Interest Forever Mystery Authority Capable Conscience Weak Miracle Conquer Rebel

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky

“So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?”

Ifs Body Running Three Accepting Hell Willing Conscience Ancient Guilty What If Running Away Ninety Circus Wrecks Accept Me Guilty Conscience Cranky

Author:Sara Gruen

“Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.”

Might Choices Three Hours Decision Knowing Kings Hero Conscience Appearance Mortals Belgium Uncomplicated

Author:Barbara Tuchman