Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 368 Conscience quotesConscience QuotesConscience Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.~ Daniel Berrigan The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.~ Steve Biko ... any broad unlimited power to hold laws unconstitutional because they offend what this Court conceives to be the ‘conscience of our people’ ... was not given by the Framers, but rather has been bestowed on the Court by the Court.~ Justice Hugo L. Black In the whole history of law and order, the biggest step was taken by primitive man when...the tribe sat in a circle and allowed only one man to speak at a time. An accused who is shouted down has no rights whatever.~ Curtis Bok The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means – to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal – would bring terrible retribution.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen... If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.~ Buddha Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.~ Buddha Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.~ Edmund Burke Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.~ Edmund Burke Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.~ Edmund Burke Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.~ Edmund Burke To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.~ Edmund Burke The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military.~ Major General Smedley Darlington Butler My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that "Carpe Diem" is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds -- for who can trust to tomorrow?~ Lord Byron Men willingly believe what they wish.~ Gaius Julius Caesar Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword. It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect. And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights. The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage. Why do I know that? I know it, because this is, what I did. And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar.~ Gaius Julius Caesar Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print