Conscience Quotes - Page 13

• Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.

  Jules Simon

  Wish, Liberty, Inquisition

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• Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Dream, Teaching, People

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• It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, People, Suffering

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• Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

  Jacque Fresco

  Environmental, Social, Concern

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.

  Katharina Zell

  Heart, Government, Matter

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• Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are so many will-o'-the-wisps. There will be those who tell you that you are foolish; that your judgment is faulty; that your conscience is all awry, and that the light within you is darkness; but heed them not. If what they say is true, the sooner you, as a searcher of wisdom, find it out the better, and you can only make that discovery by bringing your powers to the test. Therefore, pursue your course bravely.

  James Allen

  Light, Discovery, Rely Upon

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• You have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without conscience, you are just one of many thousand journalists.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Talent, Thousand, Journalist

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• Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a natural and unalienable right. To guard a man's house as his castle, to pay public and enforce private debts with the most exact faith, can give no title to invade a man's conscience, which is more sacred than his castle, or to withhold from it that debt of protection for which the public faith is pledged by the very nature and original conditions of the social pact.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Men, Law

  James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.479

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• Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

  John Goodwin

  Responsibility, Law, Justice

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• A good conscience is paradise.

  Jacobus Arminius

  Paradise

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• I'm not really concerned about boundaries. I just follow my conscience and my heart. Follow your heart. That's what I do. Compassion is something I have a lot of, because I've been through a lot of pain in my life. Anybody who has suffered a lot of pain has a lot of compassion.

  Johnny Cash

  Pain, Heart, Compassion

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• ... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of a conscience yet in the child who is just acquiring language, but we can see very clearly how language plays an indispensable role in the formation of conscience. In fact, the moral achievement of man, the whole complex of factors that go into the organization of conscience is very largely based upon language.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Men, Play

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• An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Taken, Self

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• Avoid any semblance of pornography. It is dangerous and addictive. If you continue to view pornography, your spirit will become desensitized and your conscience will erode.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Views, Erode, Spirit

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• Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Science, Men, Humanity

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• The child begins life as a pleasure-seeking animal; his infantile personality is organized around his own appetites and his own body. In the course of his rearing the goal of exclusive pleasure seeking must be modified drastically, the fundamental urges must be subject to the dictates of conscience and society, urges must be capable of postponement and in some instances of renunciation completely.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Animal, Pleasure Seeking

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.

  Mark Levin

  Spiritual, Unique, Soul

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• Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

  George A. Smith

  Listening, Mind, Quiet

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• Who fears not to do ill fears the name, And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.

  John Denham

  Names, Slave, Fame

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller”, p.115

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• By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

  Edward T. Hall

  Memories, Mind, Bureaucracy

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• The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.

  Frances G. Wickes

  Law, Demand, Pseudo

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• Be the master of your will but the servant of your conscience.

  Robin Sharma

  Masters, Servant

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.240, Jaico Publishing House

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• Once or twice in my career I feel that I have done more real harm by my discovery of the criminal than ever he had done by his crime. I have learned caution now, and I had rather play tricks with the law of England than with my own conscience.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Real, Discovery, Law

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.162, My Ebook Publishing House

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• 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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