#conscience

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. ↗

— Voltaire

#conscience #course #death #enjoy #enjoy life

Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience. ↗

— Caspar Weinberger

#conscience #here #nation #our #rests

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#appeals #been #conscience #effectual #ever

If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#american people #any #arouse #citizen #conscience

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. ↗

— Carolyn Wells

#guilty #guilty conscience #invention #mother

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#am #bad #because #conscience #duty

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#after #come #conscience #dog #examine

The myth of quantum consciousness sits well with many whose egos have made it impossible for them to accept the insignificant place science perceives for humanity, as modern instruments probe the farthest reaches of space and time. ... quantum consciousness has about as much substance as the aether from which it is composed. Early in this century, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s relativity destroyed the notion of a holistic universe that had seemed within the realm of possibility in the century just past. First, Einstein did away with the aether, shattering the doctrine that we all move about inside a universal, cosmic fluid whose excitations connect us simultaneously to one another and to the rest of the universe. Second, Einstein and other physicists proved that matter and light were composed of particles, wiping away the notion of universal continuity. Atomic theory and quantum mechanics demonstrated that everything, even space and time, exists in discrete bits – quanta. To turn this around and say that twentieth century physics initiated some new holistic view of the universe is a complete misrepresentation of what actually took place. ... The myth of quantum consciousness should take its place along with gods, unicorns, and dragons as yet another product of the fantasies of people unwilling to accept what science, reason, and their own eyes tell them about the world. ↗

— Victor J. Stenger

#consciousness #holistic #myth #new-age #physics

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#count #foolhardy #world #would

Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish." Cosca's face hardened as he leaned forwards. "Perhaps when you have faced as many disappointments and suffered as many betrayals as I, you will see it - there is no principle beyond the selfish, Inquisitor, and men are animals. Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier. There have been many times in my life when I have wished it was not so. But it is so. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#cosca #humanity #morality #life