Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse
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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
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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
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
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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
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Sin is cosmic treason
R. C. Sproul
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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
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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
Oswald Chambers
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
Harold B. Lee
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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.
Jack Ma
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I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there.
Robin Williams
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I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.
John Scott
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor Dostoevsky