Conscience Quotes - Page 14

• The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

  Peter Yarrow

  Song, Issues, Generations

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• Perhaps the greatest role of parenting, more than directing and telling children what to do, [is] helping [children] connect with their own gifts, particularly conscience.

  Stephen Covey

  Children, Roles, Helping

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• The hardest thing in the world is to stand alone. Your friends will not understand, will resent you, will want you to just stop it and let life go back to where it was. But you have to follow the quiet turning of your own considered conscience. It's a hard road.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Resent You, World, Want

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• Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Political, Mankind, Depends

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• First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Discipline, Firsts, Talent

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• Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

  T Bone Burnett

  Art, Use, Art Is

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• ...if we allow ourselves contemplative time in nature-whether it's gardening, going for a walk with the dog, or being in the heart of the southern Utah wilderness-then we can hear the voice of our conscience. If we listen to that voice, it asks us to be conscious. And if we become conscious we choose to live lives of consequence.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Dog, Live Life, Heart

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• At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Integrity, Heart, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.381, Penguin

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• There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Littles, Rooms

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1966). “Swans on an Autumn River: Stories”

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• We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Ignorance, Order

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Light, Air, Medicine

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to lead as best you can, following the dictates of your conscience. You must be true. Your Majesty, to the man you wish to become.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Believe, Men, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1039, Macmillan

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• So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander of legions, a master of rare talent or ability. Granted, there have been heroes who fit those descriptions. But many men of great evil as well. Heed me. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them." (Beyonders - A World Without Heroes)

  Brandon Mull

  Hero, Mean, Sacrifice

  Brandon Mull (2013). “Brandon Mull's Beyonders Trilogy: A World Without Heroes; Seeds of Rebellion; Chasing the Prophecy”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all born with the power of speech, but we need grammar. Conscience, too, needs Revelation.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Needs, Speech, Revelations

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• Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Ifs

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• Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court." "And why is that?" "Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience—only much more convincingly.

  Jim Butcher

  Ambition, Court, Persons

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Academ's Fury”, p.203, Penguin

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• There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

  Euripides

  Life, Success, Character

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

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• He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Done, Athens, Leniency

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• You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a joint for a future job. You see them there, dramatically lurking nearby in striped monochrome, leaping behind postboxes as soon as your head whips around to confront them. Or it's a familiar face in a crowd that you glimpse but then lose sight of. An annoying Where's Wally? forever locked away and hidden in every thought in your conscience. The bad thing that you did, always there to let you know.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Jobs, Sight, Forever

  Cecelia Ahern (2011). “The Time of My Life”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.

  Immanuel Kant

  Book, Men, Thinking

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• A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eight

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “David Balfour: Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona”, p.91, Trajectory Inc

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• I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Book, Yesterday

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.11, Macmillan

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• A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people, that she must not rock the boat for any reason, you are NOT strengthening her posocial sense, you are damaging it-and the first person she will stop protecting is herself.

  Martha Stout

  Daughter, Rocks, People

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• In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Unique, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale, R. J. Hollingdale (1983). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.127, Cambridge University Press

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• We compromise ourselves the day we are born. If we are looking for the original sin, there it is- our incapacity to live honestly with ourselves because we are human, because we are shackled by custom, by obligations and we accept compromise only in the light of our conscience, answerable as we are only to ourselves.

  F. Sionil José

  Light, Compromise, Sin

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