Conscience Quotes - Page 17

• What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.

  Marianne Williamson

  Hurt, Epidemics, Needs

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• 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.

  Ice Cube

  Crazy, Men, Trying

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• And these [pharmaceutical] companies are still threatening to sue. And it's like, you know, do you not have a conscience? Do you not want the world to be a better place? You're still making a profit. How much more of a profit do you want to make?

  Elton John

  World, Want, Like You

  "Elton John on AIDS: Compassion is Part of the Cure". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. July 24, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jim Nollman

  Humility, Garden, Compassion

  Jim Nollman (2005). “Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place”, p.104, Sentient Publications

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• I speak my mind and come from a place of conscience, as well as have fun as a musician.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Fun, Mind, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I feel especially vulnerable when I know I've let the reactive ego take control of my actions and it may have had hurtful implications with someone I love. I feel vulnerable when I don't listen to my conscience.

  Richard Brancatisano

  Ego, Hurtful, May

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.

  Howard Zinn

  Law

  Source: openvault.wgbh.org

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• The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Voice, Mad, Water

  Source: souljourns.net

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• I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

  Arlen Specter

  Thinking, Protect, Interest

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• It would be great if everybody got a conscience. If we started to take more responsibility for the pollution in the world caused by the fashion industry, and to produce less, but better-thought-out goods. Then it becomes worth saving up to buy something beautifully-designed because you can and will keep it, rather than buying a bunch of disposable fashion items you'll probably wear once before throwing away and adding to the waste stockpile. I do think people used to buy clothing with a more thoughtful approach.

  Maria Cornejo

  Fashion, Responsibility, Thoughtful

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads around, because those of us who do have a conscience can't really imagine what it would be like if we didn't. Most people think that deep down everybody has a conscience, and it turns out that's just not true.

  Martha Stout

  Thinking, People, Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you don't have a conscience, what is your behavior like? Apparently, if you don't have a conscience, if you don't really . . . love, then the only thing that's left for you is the game - it's about controlling things.

  Martha Stout

  Behavior

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

  William Ellery Channing

  Important, Compass, Objects

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• I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Heart, Abortion

  "Choice and Faith". Speech to the New York State Family Planning Providers, www.beliefnet.com. January 24, 2005.

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• Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Two, Appreciate, Literature

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• In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

  William Congreve

  Believe, Suffering, Criticism

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 1, sc. 1

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• They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Country, Betrayal, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.29, e-artnow

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• One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

  Puff Daddy

  Weakness, Combs

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• We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

  Arthur Erickson

  Artist, Culture, Exploitation

  Arthur Erickson's Address to the Institute of Canadian Bankers, www.arthurerickson.com. October 16, 1972.

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• I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Thinking, Age, Fifty

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

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• 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.

  Elena Kagan

  Jobs, Responsibility, Thinking

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• The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Change, Voice, Growth

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• When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Law, Advice, Immoral

  "Words of Wisdom". Book by Mick Farren, p. 122, 2004.

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• Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

  Alveda King

  Lying, Racism, Faces

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• The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

  Norman Maclean

  Cases, Hardest, Behinds

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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