#conscience

Does changing for the better absolve you of all the wicked shit you did before? No. March fills my head like a warm glow. Instead you receive the twin delights of guilt and regret. ↗

— Ann Aguirre

#change

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#conscience #europeans #example #importance #know

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#conscience #driving #like #living

An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment. ↗

— Anthony Standen

#awareness #conciousness #conscience #education #social-conscience

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#laws #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

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#patriotism #men

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator ↗

— Dinesh D'Souza

#holy-spirit #holy-spirit

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#finally #judge #our #stifle #unerring

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#conscience #fault #how #little #sting