Conscience Quotes - Page 20

• I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

  Zbigniew Herbert

  Responsibility, Winning, Lessons

  "The Truth of Poetry". Book by Michael Hamburger, 1969.

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• But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Men, Monopoly

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• I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

  Pol Pot

  People, Revolution, Looks

  "Day of Reckoning". "Far Eastern Economic Review" Magazine, October 1997.

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• Everyone has his own conscience,
  and there should be no rules about
  how a conscience should function.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wisdom, Should, Function

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Looks, Remember, Prisoner

  Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. June 16, 2012.

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• There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Worry, Soul, Inability

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• I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Victory, Defeat, Banner

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 79, 1982.

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• Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Accountability, Rewards, Dignity

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• Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart.

  Arthur James Moore

  Healing, Heart, Government

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• Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Gentleman, Pockets, Philanthropy

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

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• Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Persistence, Self

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• Empowerment is what managers do to people. Engagement is what managers do with people.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Leadership, People, Empowerment

  Henry Mintzberg (2013). “Simply Managing: What Managers Do — and Can Do Better”, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There is no mystery about successful business.... Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

  Charles William Eliot

  Leadership, Successful, Attention

  Charles William Eliot (1924). “Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect”, p.91, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

  Rich Karlgaard

  Leadership, Giving, Steel

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• One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

  Brian Tracy

  Leadership, Motivation, Self

  Brian Tracy (2013). “Motivation”, p.1, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Leadership, Organization, Way

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• The only valid voice of one's reputation is that spoken by one's conscience.

  Wes Fesler

  Voice, Reputation

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• Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sad, Men, Seductive

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (1981). “Grand Inquisitor”, p.10, A&C Black

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• Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Ugly Things, Helping

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• I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, New York, Father

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.

  Billy Graham

  People, Choices, Safe

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• There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

  Robert Breault

  Integrity, Self, Battle

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• There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

  Hartley Shawcross, Baron Shawcross

  Leadership, Men, Answers

  "The Nuremberg Trials". Book by Ann Tusa and John Tusa, 1983.

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• What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

  Norman Cousins

  Skills, People, Perspective

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• Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.

  Bob Altemeyer

  Lying, Psychopath, Shows

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