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«People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.»
«Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction.»
Author: Wilford O. Cross
| About:
Conscience,
Conviction
| Keywords:
attic, consciences, junk, litter, littered, littering, litters, sheer
«O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!»
«Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.»
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch
(Naturalist, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Living,
Nature
| Keywords:
burgeon, burgeoning, burgeons, Sun rise, wither
«Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Conscience
| Keywords:
acting out, collective, The Collective
«Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a traveler?and novelists are often travelers?is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Writing
| Keywords:
blown, congo, elsewhere, extension, Gaza, go to bed, go to pieces, Grozny, in time, Novelists, perennial, prosperous, reminded, returned, Right Now, Right to return, Rio, sheer, simultaneity, Sudan, surprised, The Congo, this evening, time and space, traveler, travelers, unlikely, visited
«Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
| About:
Action,
Conscience,
Dreams,
Life
| Keywords:
bring together, brought, composed, composes, connection, greatly, The Connection, unconscious, weaves, weaving, wove, woven
«Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Conscience,
Growth
| Keywords:
bud, budded, budding, circulation, detect, detects, registered, registering, registers, sap, saps, The Register
«Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.»
«Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Conscience,
Fidelity,
Heroism,
Labor,
Peace,
Purity,
Sacrifice,
Truth,
War
| Keywords:
fidelities, fidelity, heroic, heroism, purity
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