Conscience Quotes - Page 27

• It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Spirit, Moral, Puritan

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Beyond Good and Evil”, p.119, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Eye, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.256, Library of America

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• Live with honor and follow your conscience.

  Benigno Aquino, Jr.

  Honor

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• I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Economic Models, Understanding

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• Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Freedom Of Speech, Speech

  Speech on Freedom of Expression at the European Parliament, February 14, 2008.

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• If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Soul

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 13: Sermons 728 to 787”, p.783, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Understanding, Matter

  "The Soul-Winner; or, How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour". Book by Charles Spurgeon, 1895.

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• Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

  William Gurnall

  Echoes, Mercy

  William Gurnall (1821). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of the Policy, Power, Wickedness, and Stratagems Made Use of by that Enemy of God and His People : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Assisted in Buckling on His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapons, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.406

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• I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.

  Russell Means

  Country, Character, Government

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• Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

  G. Willow Wilson

  Men, Measure Of A Man, Ultimate

  G. Willow Wilson (2012). “Alif the Unseen”, p.148, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Modern value-neutral society (Gesellschaft rather than Gemeinschaft) is systematized predation tempered not by conscience or values but rather merely by a system of law, which is no less corrupt with private interests and its own forms of predation. In modernity sophism is the order of the day, and this obliges its most adept practitioners to learn how to develop the art of appearing to be other than one actually is.

  Kenny Smith

  Art, Philosophy, Order

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• In 1938, after Austria, our universe had become accustomed to inhumanity, to lawlessness, and brutality as never in centuries before. In a former day the occurrences in unhappy Vienna alone would have been sufficient to cause international proscription, but in 1938 the world conscience was silent or merely muttered surlily before it forgot and forgave.

  Stefan Zweig

  Unhappy, Vienna, Brutality

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• If it's time to let go, JUST LET GO. You can't carry on through life with extra weight on your conscience.

  Shannon Leto

  Letting Go, Weight, Time To Let Go

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• I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

  Matt Drudge

  Communication, People, Upset

  Q & A at the Washington Press Club, delivered 2 June 1998

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• I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.

  Winston Groom

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• I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness, I shall do most for God’s glory and the good of man, and I shall have the fullest reward in eternity, but maintaining a conscience always washed in Christ’s blood, by being filled with the Holy Spirit at all times, and by attaining the most entire likeness to Christ in mind, will, and heart, that it is possible for a redeemed sinner to attain to in this world.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Heart, Men, Blood

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1846). “Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne: Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee”, p.151

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• For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

  William Penn

  Heart, Pierce

  George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Fell (1839). “A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian Experiences, and Labour of Love in the Work of the Ministry of that Ancient, Eminent, and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, George Fox”, p.19

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• It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

  James F. Cooper

  Men, Evil, Dies

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• People that were in my life for a long time turned sinister and tried to control me, and all kinds of weird stuff happened. But there was no conscience involved; that threw me more than anything.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Long, People, Stuff

  "Lisa Marie Presley on turning her back on Hollywood, living with her father's fame" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.

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• Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience.

  Jay Paterno

  World, Clear, Left

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• The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Discovery, Blood

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• The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Purpose, Want

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.225, Graphic Arts Books

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• I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Men, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1151, Delphi Classics

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• What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Marine, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, David M Gross

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• In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Thinking, Looks, Juvenile

  "A fiery dissenter rethinks her views". Interview with Tunku Varadarajan, nytlive.nytimes.com. March 25, 2015.

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