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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One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Marina Tsvetaeva
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Given the sin of impiety through which they the Romans sinned against the divine nature by idolatry, the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies by idolatry the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil.
Thomas Aquinas
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
George Burton Adams
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor Dostoevsky