Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 368 Conscience quotesConscience QuotesConscience Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes When we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.~ C. Arthur Campbell Integrity has no need of rules.~ Albert Camus There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.~ Hodding Carter No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.~ Chinese Proverb I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.~ Sir Winston Churchill You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.~ Sir Winston Churchill A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.~ William Kingdon Clifford We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable.~ Bill Clinton It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.~ Bill Clinton It depends on what the meaning of the word is. If the– if he– if "is" means is and never has been, that is not– that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a completely true statement.... Now, if someone had asked me on that day, are you having any kind of sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky, that is, asked me a question in the present tense, I would have said no. And it would have been completely true.~ Bill Clinton Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.~ John Cogley The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.~ Morris R. Cohen Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.~ Confucius The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.~ Steven R. Covey I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead.~ Davy Crockett I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.~ Davy Crockett Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print