|
"conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." »H.L. Mencken
|
|
"conscience is the voice of the soul." »Polish Proverb
|
|
"conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking." »Henry Louis Mencken
|
|
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" »Carl Gustav Jung
|
|
"O how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man sits enshrined visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only, as God revealed himself to the prophet in the still small voice, and in a voice from the Burning Bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain invisible to man." »Longfellow
|
|
"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper." »Barry Neil Kaufman
|
|
"The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is" »Samuel Butler
|
|
"conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience." »James F. Clarke
|
|
"conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. conscience is the trade-name of the firm." »Oscar Wilde
|
|
"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'" »Sydney Harris
|
|
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
|
"The voice of the people is the voice of God.
(Vox Populi, Vox Dei)" »Alcuin
|
|
"I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law." »Martin Luther King Jr.
|
|
"A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness." »Seneca
|
|
"The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks." »Johann von Goethe
|
|
"A marching army first crushes the flowers before the enemy; but even before this, it crushes its own conscience! conscience and killing cannot be together." »Mehmet Murat ildan
|
|
"If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." »Vincent Van Gough
|
|
"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
|
"The voice of the people is the voice of God." »Alcuin
|
|
"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning." »Daniel J. Boorstin
|
|
"conscience and reputation are two things. conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour." »Saint Augustine
|
|
"He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason." »Jeremy Taylor
|
|
"To be positive To be mistaken at the top of one's voice." »Ambrose Bierce
|
|
"If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?" »George Carlin
|
|
"His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets." »Dorothy Parker
|
|
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." »Mahatma Gandhi
|
|
"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests." »George Santayana
|
|
"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice." »Anonymous
|
|
"You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument." »Samuel Johnson
|
| Like Quotes.net? Why won't you tell a friend about us? |
