Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler -
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse -
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden -
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
Iris DeMent -
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee -
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving Layton -
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius -
Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
Barbara G. Walker -
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
Lady Gregory -
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
Gary Becker -
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Harold Warner
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
Valerie Plame -
May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
Albert Einstein -
Sin is cosmic treason
R. C. Sproul -
I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.
Christina Aguilera -
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
Oswald Chambers -
The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
Harold B. Lee
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It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.
Hannah Arendt -
I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.
Barney Frank -
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor Dostoevsky