#conscience

That's interesting," Bitterblue said. "You think a conscience requires fear? ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#conscience #fear #kristin-cashore #conscience

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#before #coming #conscience #far #had

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

#american #any #citizenry #companies #conscience

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist. ↗

— Bono

#become #being #brother #church #conscience

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. ↗

— Mo Yan

#consciences #i #i think #own #souls

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#conscience #fast #good #good man #man

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#conscience #difference #hold #law #moral

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. ↗

— Hartley William Shawcross

#answer #comes #conscience #his #leader

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you. ↗

— Criss Jami

#biggest #confidence #conscience #control #critic

The truth is that we were so spiritually and morally bankrupt that we could not even see some of those lines: we stepped over them blindly. Other times we saw the lines alright, but we wanted to cross them. Alcohol gave us the false courage to do it and numbed our conscience as we did. Alcohol was the great enabler, and the great anesthetic. It wasn’t God who was dead. We were. – p. 116 ↗

— Ray A.

#enabler #honesty #courage