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No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.
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conscience
guilt
stefan-zweig
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Stefan Zweig |
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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- . Know this at last.
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conscience
courtship
dignity
empowerment
feminism
gender
independence
integrity
love
marriage
matrimony
self-determination
social-norms
women
wooing
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Charlotte Brontë |
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"Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?" The lady smiled. "That's a question rarely asked here at court." "And why is that?" "Because a woman of conscience would tell you that she is a person of conscience. A woman of ambition would tell you that she is a person of conscience--only much more convincingly." --
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conscience
convincing
court
lying
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Jim Butcher |
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Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal are most general, and are, in turn, most trusted. Stories bind. . . . They are basic to who we are. A story composite personality which grows out of its community. It maintains a stability within that community, providing common knowledge as to how things are, how things should be -- knowledge based on experience. These stories become the conscience of the group. They belong to everyone.
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conscience
culture
story
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Terry Tempest Williams |
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Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, vigilant always in the interests of its master to crush any half-formed desire to break away from the herd.
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conscience
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.
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civil-rights
civil-rights-movement
conscience
hatred
nonviolence
peace
protest
racism
racism-in-america
resistance
segregation
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.
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change
compassion
conscience
conviction
guilt
hell
hunger
indifference
power
rationalization
starvation
stewardship
tolstoy
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Randy Alcorn |
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"I hate what you represent." ...
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conscience
power
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Jim Butcher |
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Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.
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conscience
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T.S. Eliot |
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All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities: (1) bringing one's activities into harmony with conscience, or (2) hiding from oneself the indications of conscience in order to be able to continue to live as before. Some do the first, others the second. To attain the first there is but one means: moral enlightenment -- the increase of light in oneself and attention to what it shows. To attain the second -- to hide from oneself the indications of conscience--there are two means: one external and the other internal. The external means consists in occupations that divert one's attention from the indications given by conscience; the internal method consists in darkening conscience itself. As a man has two ways of avoiding seeing an object that is before him: either by diverting his sight to other more striking objects, or by obstructing the sight of his own eyes--just so a man can hide from himself the indications of conscience in two ways: either by the external method of diverting his attention to various occupations, cares, amusements, or games; or by the internal method of obstructing the organ of attention itself. For people of dull, limited moral feeling, the external diversions are often quite sufficient to enable them not to perceive the indications conscience gives of the wrongness of their lives. But for morally sensitive people those means are often insufficient. The external means do not quite divert attention from the consciousness of discord between one's life and the demands of conscience. This consciousness hampers one's life; and in order to be able to go on living as before, people have recourse to the reliable, internal method, which is that of darkening conscience itself by poisoning the brain with stupefying substances. One is not living as conscience demands, yet lacks the strength to reshape one's life in accord with its demands. The diversions which might distract attention from the consciousness of this discord are insufficient, or have become stale, and so--in order to be able to live on, disregarding the indications conscience gives of the wrongness of their life--people (by poisoning it temporarily) stop the activity of the organ through which conscience manifests itself, as a man by covering his eyes hides from himself what he does not wish to see.
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conscience
intoxication
self-forgetfulness
spiritual-disease
suffering
the-unlived-life
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Leo Tolstoy |
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To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most infamous of men, would be to swallow up all epics in a superior and final epic. The conscience is the chaos of chimeras, of lusts and of temptations, the furnace of dreams, the cave of the ideas which are our shame; it is the pandemonium of sophisms, the battlefield of the passions. At certain hours, penetrate within the livid face of a human being who reflects, and look at what lies behind; look into that soul, look into that obscurity. There, beneath the external silence, there are combats of giants as in Homer, melees of dragons and hydras, and clouds of phantoms as in Milton, ghostly labyrinths as in Dante. What a gloom enwraps that infinite which each man bears within himself, and by which he measures in despair the desires of his will, and the actions of his life!
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conscience
depth
desire
reflection
soul
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Victor Hugo |
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Mas como era extraordinaria aquela sala cheia de gente -- ou melhor, de animais -, a olhar na mesma direccao, para outros animais mascarados e treinados para representar num palco, para animais cobertos de tecido e bocados de peles, ornamentados com pedras e de rostos e garras pintados. Toda a gente acabara de comer um animal de qualquer especie; as peles que se viam por toda a parte, apesar de a noite estar quente, provinham de animas que tinham vivido, brincado e fornicado em florestas e campos, e os pes de toda a gente estavam cobertos de pele de animais.
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conscience
life
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Doris Lessing |
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Some people just needed to be stolen from.
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conscience
eoin-colfer
stealing
thief
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Eoin Colfer |
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"Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they could drive Christ from the earth, they would be free from "moral inhibitions." They forget that it is their own nature and conscience which makes them feel that way. Being unable to drive God from the heavens, they would drive his ambassadors from the earth. In a lesser sphere, that is why many men sneer at virtue--because it makes vice uncomfortable."
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christianity
conscience
morality
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Fulton J. Sheen |
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C'etait un jour de fete. Mais l'haine se repete. Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur, Si on veut que l'amour soit vainqueur
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amour
amour-indépendance-liberté
assassin
ataque
bastille
bastille-pompeii
chute
coeur
coexistence
conscience
contemplation
crime
despoir
fete
france
gloire
guerres
haine
horreur
independance
joie-de-vivre
journalism
lamour
mort
notre-cœur
nouvelles
peuple
peur
poesie
revolution
rime
terrible
terror
terrorisme
terrorists
trouble
vain
vanite
vengeance
victor-hugo
ville
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Ana Claudia Antunes |
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"There are authorities to choose from," Tharkay said, "to suit any action, if you like; I prefer to keep the choice a little closer."
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conscience
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Naomi Novik |