345 quotes found
“Philosophy is the dance of conscience on a stage called the mind.”
“Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to shout in your mind.”
“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affair...”
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
“We can grant, too, that for social problems to be diagnosed, some detachment from society is necessaryBut social problems are rarely to be solved by men totally outside of society certainly not by...”
“He was a committed leader, capable of - or prone to - instinctive decisions. More: he could put aside thought in the service of forceful action. But in quiet moments his sensitivity sometimes led h...”
“The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.”
“When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it tu...”
“The powerful have no conscience”
“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune. ”
“Sometimes, when I am sad,I am not sad for myself.I am sad for the world, I am sad to see where we are going.I am sad to see how we can smile by making someone else sad.I am sad to see how we haveki...”
“It is not because mens desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. There is no natural connection between strong impulses and a weak conscience. The natural conn...”
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
“And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf to all else, it were doubtless our solitary duty to relieve the suf...”
“Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every human being, as the quest for truth is the true purpose of living. We are given an entire lifetime to collect and assemble truths. Truths are acquired only ...”
“...I have had a remarkable experience. In the past the prophetic voice to which I have become accustomed has always been my constant companion, opposing me even in quite trivial things if I was goi...”
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
“We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves."The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life there...”
“This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey. It leaves a footprint. It leaves a legacy. To eat with reckless abandon, without conscie...”
“The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”
