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"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
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"The question stayed with me every day, through every class, through every Op. I felt its teeth tighten around the back of my neck each time I was dismissed without a second look; it had locked it's jaws and wouldn't let me or my conscience go."
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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
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"Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture."
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"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."
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"Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death."
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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
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"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
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"An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic."
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"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."
History
"I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific."
History
"There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime."
Reflection
"I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one."
Reflection
"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."
Conscience
"From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past."
Past
"An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary."
Being
"What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity."
Development
"Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves."
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