#conscience

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#anchor #becomes #conflicts #confusion #conscience

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#conscience #memorials #modern #our #relics

Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with their world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence, and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, eve, and low methods. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#evil #men #violence #design

There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#freedom

The root of liberalism, in a word, is hatred of compulsion, for liberalism has the respect for the individual and his conscience and reason which the employment of coercion necessarily destroys. The liberal has faith in the individual – faith that he can be persuaded by rational means to beliefs compatible with social good. ↗

— Harold Edmund Stearns

#compulsion #conscience #faith #individual #liberal

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. ↗

— George Sewell

#fear #guilt #pays #tax

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself. ↗

— Robert Ludlum

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

Major, I do not know why God does the things He does, but I believe you have the same duty to God as you have always had: to follow the right path, to live your life with a clear conscience. ↗

— Jeff Shaara

#duty #life

True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time? ↗

— Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#justice #law #right-and-wrong #men

The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience. ↗

— Criss Jami

#conditional #conditional-love #conflict #conscience #defense