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"But no man has a monopoly of conscience."
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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."
"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."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
"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."
"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
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"For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town."
"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."
"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."
"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."
"We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress."
"In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction."
"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."
"How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!"
"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."
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