#conscience

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#consciences #highest #human #human society #interest

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#action film #both #brought #cameron #conscience

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. ↗

— George Bancroft

#errors #full #lives #mirror #our

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #expense #fame #few #fruition

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. ↗

— Charles Edison

#conscience #except #i #make #my own

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#being #carry #conscience #duties #every

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#compass #conscience #far #great #however

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#conscience #incorruptible #only #thing #us

I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme. ↗

— Beatrice Dalle

#cannibal #character #complete #conscience #core

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#conscience #dangers #despotism #entails #freedom