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Tag Name "Conscience" (1308)

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Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place / Oh, not to-day not now!
Alice Cary
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In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle, the main goal must be to awaken people’s consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.
Guillaume Faye
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Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.
Rich Karlgaard
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A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility of the pope, or obedience to any church official if it is against my conscience. I am not interested in earning merit or in being saved by priestly incantation.
Ammon Hennacy
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
Thomas a Kempis
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I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.
Syd Barrett
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The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience.
Wes Fesler
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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
Nicolas Chamfort
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The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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The passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
Martin Firrell
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
Joseph Joubert
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One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.
Martha Stout
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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.
Agatha Christie
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What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
Elena Kagan
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Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.
Thomas Jefferson
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
J. I. Packer
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You don't have to be sick to get better.
Michael Josephson
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As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.
Ovid
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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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