#scienc

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#bad #children #consciences #fear #judgment

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#bad #conscience #conviction #deed #deep

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#art #cage #circus #democracy #monkey

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#conscience #evil #parents #penance #prison

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#ends #mother-in-law #never #visit #whose

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#inner #inner voice #looking #might #someone

The simplest science book is over my head. ↗

— James Merrill

#head #over #science #simplest

Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#experimental #fraternity #moreover #must #new

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences. ↗

— Maria Monk

#been #biting #consciences #devils #go