“Contrary to the romantic way in which our history is/has been portrayed, politicians are NOT 'men of good conscience.' In the real world, it takes a psychopath to want to rule over other human beings. Unless you want to define the word 'service' in the context of what a bull does to a cow, in no way are the efforts of politicians in this regard any kind of 'service'.” MenWorldWayWantHumansKindDoeHas BeensRealPoliticalHuman BeingsEffortPoliticianConscienceRegardContraryReal WorldCowsBullsPsychopath Author:Edward Britton
“As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice.” MenDoeInterestJusticeLibertyConscienceRegardSakeLiberalismConsistentMaximumSomething BetterPeace And JusticeDissatisfiedReformers Author:Ralph Barton Perry
“Loeb has been doing wonderfully patient work, exploring the American conscience from the inside. I regard him as something of a national treasure.” Has BeensConscienceRegardPatientTreasureExploringNational Treasure Author:Susan Sontag
“What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth.” IfsYearsMindKindMayPersonsHappensEarthValuesNationsAnswersAttitudeAcceptingMoralHellTakenMankindBabyConscienceTwentiesRegardFabricConfrontingMind SetValue Systems Author:Jesse Jackson
“To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.” WorldComfortCallingConscienceRegardRebelSorrowful Author:Martin Luther
“If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences.” PeopleIfsHeartChoicesHolyConscienceRegardWorthyImpulseHomageFree ChoiceOmniscient Book:The Papers of James Madison: 8 February-24 October 1813 Source: The Papers of James Madison: 8 February-24 October 1813
“What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.” HumansLooksHeartHas BeensSaidTwoSelfWholeCharacterDifferencesPleasureSeeingMysteryYouthFineClothesConscienceMirrorsRegardShoesDareNobleImpulseMaturityResolveDeceivingPhasesSpontaneousHuman HeartCalculationsGlovesMoralistSwervePhases Of LifeSudden Change Author:Honore de Balzac
“We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan.” MatterHandsPoliticalBoysTeachDemocracyPlansTaughtConscienceAll ThingsRegardCrowdsPatriotismCheerContemptMonarchyDeliveryTraitorExaminingAversionSecond Hand Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations