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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."

"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."

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."

"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."

"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."

"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."

"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."


"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."


"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round."


"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
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