Conscience Quotes - page 48

If the young are watched too closely, if they are kept habitually under surveillance, the spring of action is weakened, the power of initiative is destroyed, and they become mediocre, commonplace, mechanical men and women, from whom nothing excellent or distinguished may be expected. Parents and teachers ... must so deal with the young as to bring them little by little under the control of reason and conscience; and in this, nothing thwarts more surely than excessive supervision, for it draws attention from the inner view and voice to the eyes of the watchers. It may cultivate a love of decency and propriety, but not the creative feeling that we live with God and that righteousness is life. (John Lancaster Spalding)
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change. View quote
Joe Biden
I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available. View quote
Hillary Clinton
We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience. View quote
Larisa Alexandrovna
Nietzsche's arrival in modern philosophy signaled an unprecedented necessity: "probity”, "intellectual conscience”, Enlightenment radicalized by a new bravery that scorns any comforts like God. View quote
Laurence Lampert
Conscience is the voice of the soul the passions are the voice of the body. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men glibly turn to an infallible Bible, or an infallible church, or an infallible Pope, or an infallible conscience, or an infallible Christ, and say that that authority is sufficient for them and enables them to accept truth. I believe all that kind of talk is false. It is false psychology or a failure of insight, and it is the fruit of mental laziness; a refusal to think things through. The most important convictions in religion cannot really be reached on the word of another. We can assent to propositions out of laziness of thought, or a desire to please, or an inability to argue, but one of the reasons why, in a crisis, men often feel let down by their religion is that they glibly assented to this or that, and falsely called their assent ‘belief.' View quote
Leslie Weatherhead
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others. View quote
Jeremy Taylor
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe: Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law. March on, join bravely, let us to't pell-mell; If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell. View quote
William Shakespeare
O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. View quote
William Shakespeare
Observation and reflection only give us the actual of morals; conscience, by gradual and successive intuition, presents us the ideal of morals. (Theodore Parker)
Man naturally loves justice, for its own sake, as the natural object of his conscience. As the mind loves truth and beauty, so conscience loves the right; it is true and beautiful to the moral faculties. View quote
Theodore Parker
A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again. View quote
Pam Brown
However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences. View quote
Toni Morrison
A dead language is not only one no longer spoken or written, it is unyielding language content to admire its own paralysis. Like statist language, censored and censoring. Ruthless in its policing duties, it has no desire or purpose other than maintaining the free range of its own narcotic narcissism, its own exclusivity and dominance. However moribund, it is not without effect for it actively thwarts the intellect, stalls conscience, suppresses human potential. Unreceptive to interrogation, it cannot form or tolerate new ideas, shape other thoughts, tell another story, fill baffling silences. View quote
Toni Morrison
Philadelphia I am not for Russian nor Japanese governments, but for deceived labouring people of both country, obliged to fight against their welfare, conscience and religion. Tolstoy 1904. Февраля 9/22. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The conscience of a man of our circle, if he retains but a scrap of it, cannot rest, and poisons all the comforts and enjoyments of life supplied to us by the labour of our brothers, who suffer and perish. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. View quote
Mark Twain
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth. View quote
Mark Twain
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not. View quote
Mark Twain
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor the party and country come second to that, and never first. (Mark Twain)
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money. View quote
Mark Twain
Blackjack does possess a memory (the interdependence of the cards) and a conscience (inferior play will inevitably be penalized) and is not democratic (the mental agility and retentiveness of the player are significant factors). View quote
Richard Arnold Epstein
God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. View quote
Robert South
There are tough men but let me tell you I know from experience that really dangerous men have no pity. I'm not an unreasonable man but if you are a man and you take a liberty with me or cross me, then believe what I say: When it comes to retribution I have no pity or conscience. If that makes me the devil, then the devil I am, but I haven't got horns sticking out of my head or cloven hooves and a tail but if you're unlucky enough to have me come after you, beware cos hell's coming with me. View quote
Roy Shaw