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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
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"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."
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"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
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"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."
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"The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
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"So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about."
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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
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"The simple, external acts in which you resolve shame and guilt, and set right a debt, by passing by them all and giving something grander even so and instead of. You end the circle by leaving it behind. Conscience brings awareness of the need to change something, but the source of your actions must become inspiration and devotion. You're not doing it to get out of debt; you are doing it because you know it to be the thing to do."
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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
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"Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well."
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"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
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"It takes a long time to understand nothing."
Time
"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty."
Power
"So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born."
Time
"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."
Man
"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
Virtue
"Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake."
Life
"Every decision you make is a mistake."
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"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
Earth
"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."
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"Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy."
Man
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