“It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.” BodyMovementPositionOughtConscienceAskingRoundsExecutives Author:Ernest Bevin
“My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.” DoeRunningPositionConscienceDemocraticOfficialsPermitPresidencyFramework Author:Mohamed ElBaradei
“I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.” WellsAtheismPositionConscienceLaysPositive AtheismAdvancementAdvancingWarrants Book:A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23: Source: A philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23:
“I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.” FactsMoralPositionLowsConscienceMachinesSoldierCogsMoral Conscience Author:Otto Ohlendorf
“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.” SelfCharacterIndividualWealthResponsibilityPositionEqualJudgmentConscienceDignityAddRecognitionMeritArtificialSovereigntyInheritanceAttainmentIndividual ResponsibilityConceded Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“What does a man seek in this world? A position, or a throne? Man seeks peace of mind and the fear of Almighty God. As long as one knows that there is ajudgement day, he tries to keep his conscience clear and do what he can.” KnowsMenWorldTryingMindLongDoeClearPositionThis WorldConsciencePeace Of MindAlmightyThronesAlmighty GodJudgement Day Author:King Hussein I
“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.” IfsMenWorldShouldHeartSaidWarWholeNamesNationsPoorPositionConscienceWeakMercySorryToleranceWhole WorldPityBritainGreat MenRejoiceDefeatedWorld HistoryGreat SuccessGreat BritainI Am SorryAm SorryForlornMagnanimityFriendlessWarmongersPeace And Tolerance Author:Winston Churchill
“Melancholia for Freud is the relationship that the subject takes up with respect to itself from the position of what he calls conscience or what he later calls the super-ego. And that can be lacerated - if you think of the anorexic who sees themselves from the perspective of the image they have, of the image they have of themselves in the mirror which is false - that would be the super-ego. Super-ego is what generates depression and it is what has to be dealt with in psychoanalysis.” IfsThinkingWould BeSubjectsPositionPerspectiveEgoConscienceMirrorsPsychoanalysisAnorexics Author:Simon Critchley
“Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.” MenLawForcePositionAuthorityConscienceContraryStationsInferiors Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't a very popular position in the Administration, with her own husband having ordered by executive order the internment. Maybe she was just told: "Look, we're in a war now. Turn off your social conscience."” LooksI CanIdeasWarOrderTurnsSocialImagineSubjectsPositionHusbandConscienceAdministrationNo IdeaExecutivesImagine ThatTurn OffVery PopularExecutive OrdersInternment Author:William A. Rusher
“I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.” MenTryingKindStuffPrinciplesCrazyPositionConscienceLaysRecognitionBe A Man Author:Ice Cube
“I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.” IfsThinkingJobsResponsibilityPositionConscienceArguingRequirementsTime To Leave Author:Elena Kagan