#conscience

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#dogma #mistake #science #life

A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then it hath less than no conscience. You can't afford a conscience in this life, that has become a luxury for the rich and a social ball and chain for the rest of us. Even if I wanted one, which I certainly do not, I wouldn't have the faintest idea as how to go about getting one. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#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

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

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#conscience #religion #religion

If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#conscience #rational #religion

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine

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

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#conscience #deep #deep down #down #even

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does. ↗

— Josh Billings

#does #makes #mistakes #never #often