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“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.”

Thinking World Kind Doe Made Certain Individual Views Responsibility Known Fate Impossible Depends Ethics Conscience Essence Excuse Point Of View Ethical Sense Of Responsibility

Author:Gyorgy Lukacs

“Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.”

People Whole Artist Views Conscience Point Of View Handful

Book:To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence

Source: To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe--Maxwell Perkins Correspondence

“Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational.”

Men May Values Choices Views Acting Particular Conscience Commitment Rational Agents Consistently Stance Evaluation Weber

Author:Alasdair MacIntyre

“I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature or where people are deeply divided about whether it is... Americans are plainly and persistently divided about abortion and the fiat of government cannot settle the issue as a matter of conscience or of conduct.”

People Should Believe Matter Government I Believe Religious Decision Views Issues Atheism Authority Conscience Positive Atheism Witness Settling Abortion Divided

Author:Edward Kennedy

“Evolution throws a wonderful light on all the struggles, eccentricities, tortuous developments of the human conscience in the past. It is the only theory of morals that does. And evolution throws just as much light on the ethical and social struggle today; and it is the only theory that does. What a strange age ours is from the religious point of view! What a hopeless age from the philosopher's point of view! Yet it is a very good age, the best that ever was. No evolutionist is a pessimist.”

“Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.”

Courses Views Conscience Always Believe

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.”

Ifs Spirit Views Dangerous Conscience Pornography Semblance Erode

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.”

Would Be Law Views Accepting Opinion Judging Judgment Conscience Absurdity Jurors Nullification Judge And Jury

Author:John Adams

“Since natural law was thought to be accessible to the ordinary man, the theory invited each juror to inquire for himself whether a particular rule of law was consonant with principles of higher law. This view is reflected in John Adams' statement that it would be an 'absurdity' for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, 'against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.'”

“I know there are some Christians who believe that war and their participation in it are morally wrong. While I respect their views and must allow them to follow their consciences, I do not believe the Bible teaches pacifism.”

Knows Believe War Christian Views Teach Conscience Participation Pacifism

Book:Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions

Source: Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions

“As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance.”

Source: Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place

“Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.”

People Belief Views Conscience Concepts Rooted Governing

Author:Barbara Jordan

“In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.”

Stars Views Rocks Conscience Rock Star

Author:Bono

“People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.”

People Knows Children Social Parent Born Views Conscience

Author:Eli Broad

“Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?”

Humans Earth Animal Views Compassion Taught Empathy Standards Conscience Mere Mindset Exploitation Commodity Vicious Lied Procedures Disrespect Lied To Me Standard Operating Procedures

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.”

Art Social Views Roles Issues Focus Position Conscience Criticism Point Of View Vehicle Menace

Author:Rod Serling