Conscience Quotes - Page 39

• 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.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Men, Justice, Liberty

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• The people are led to find in the productive apparatus the effective agent of thought and action to which their personal thought and action can and must be surrendered. And in this transfer, the apparatus also assumes the role of a moral agent. Conscience is absolved by reification.

  Herbert Marcuse

  People, Roles, Agents

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.82, Routledge

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• The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Men, Avant Garde, He Man

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.70, Beacon Press

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• The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Unconscious, Superego, Censoring

  Herbert Marcuse (2012). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.76, Beacon Press

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• Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries.

  Roger Williams

  Country, Mean, Men

  "The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience". Book by Roger Williams. "Address to Parliament", 1644.

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• So long as men die, life will reassert its tragic interest from time to time with fresh energy, and to this interest Christianity alone can respond. If the scientific people could rid us of death, they might indeed hope to win over the heart and conscience of the world, permanently, to some form of non-theistic speculation. As it is, the tide ebbs, as I believe, only that it may flow again.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Believe, Heart, Winning

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• But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Mistake, May, Christ

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• If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Respect, Moving, Commitment

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Doctors, Law

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1415, Best Books on

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• It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Punishment, Favors, Shields

  Theodore Roosevelt (2009). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.131, Courier Corporation

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• My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

  Giulio Andreotti

  Justice, Way, Guilty

  "Interview with Giulio Andreotti, Italian Former Prime Minister". Interview with Bill Delaney, www.cnn.com. September 24, 1995.

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• I know there are some people in Germany who become sick when they see these black uniforms, we understand the reason for this, and do not expect we shall be loved by all that number of people; those who come to fear us in any way or at any time must have a bad conscience towards the Fuhrer and the nation. For these persons we have established an organisation called the Security Service.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Numbers, People, Sick

  "The Security Squadron as an Anti-Bolshevik Battle Organisation". Treatise by Heinrich Himmler, 1936.

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• Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

  Jose Saramago

  Law, Silence, Should

  "Todos os Nomes (All the Names)". Book by Jose Saramago translated by Margaret Jull Costa, 1999.

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• Oh but I'd pay anything to keep my conscience clean.I'm keeping my eyes on the the exit sign. Steady now.

  St. Vincent

  Eye, Pay, Exit

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• Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.

  Roger Zelazny

  Sea, Smell, Dwelling

  Roger Zelazny (2001). “Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat”, Ibooks

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• Raymond Aron ascribes to Weber the view that 'each man's conscience is irrefutable.' ... while [Weber] holds that an agent may be more or less rational in acting consistently with his values, the choice of any one particular evaluative stance or commitment can be no more rational than any other. All faiths and all evaluations are equally non-rational.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Commitment, Views, Choices

  "After Virtue". Book by Alasdair MacIntyre, 1981.

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• The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Truth, War, Power

  B. H. Liddell Hart (2009). “Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American”, p.10, Da Capo Press

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• I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion.

  William the Silent

  People, Choices, Want

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• My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not disturb me. I am acting according to a clear conscience, and am doing hurt to no man. For my conduct, I will answer to my maker.

  William the Silent

  Hurt, Men, Wife

  "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 176, 1897.

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• Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

  Jim Butcher

  Hate, Honor, Sometimes

  Jim Butcher (2001). “Fool Moon: Book two of The Dresden Files”, p.7, Penguin

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• We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

  Mark Tobey

  Agreement, Water, Ego

  Bahai lecture; as quoted in "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America", W.C. Seitz, 1983, pp. 66/67, 1951.

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• I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly!

  Jan Theuninck

  Thinking, Missions, Duty

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• Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

  Fausto Cercignani

  People, Judgement, Yardsticks

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• Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

  Joseph Alleine

  Christian, May, Littles

  "ictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• That image or rather that Person, so human, yet so entirely Divine, has a power to fill the imagination, to arrest the affections, to deepen and purify the conscience, which nothing else in the world has.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Imagination, World, Affection

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.144

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