#conscience

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could choose to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#drinking #guilt #freedom

The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking it literally. The Bible does not present us with material that is ridiculous in the context from which it came. The Bible springs from the context in which people then were thinking, searching, and trying to find answers . ↗

— Robert Alley

#feminism #religion #freedom

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory. ↗

— Mark Twain

#humor #memory #humor

Abortion is an issue of conscience for the Labour party. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#conscience #issue #labour #labour party #party

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#men

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. ↗

— François Rabelais

#science #science

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#conscience #duty #character

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

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

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

— Maurice Hinchey

#american #any #citizenry #companies #conscience