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"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."

"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."

"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."

"Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race " it is beyond religion " it is beyond all sectarianism."

"Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it."

"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."

"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."

"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."

"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."

"Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind."
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"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."

"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."

"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture."

"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."

"No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them."

"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart."
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