Ernest Gaines Quotes
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Lajos Kossuth -
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
Saint-John Perse -
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 -
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving Layton -
I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.
Dana Hill
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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 -
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
Oswald Chambers -
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
Alan Paton -
By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
Edward T. Hall -
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
Austin Phelps -
Being a Dad is the greatest, except for assembling things.
Conan O'Brien
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It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words.
Noel Gallagher Oasis -
I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
Robert Frost -
Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Mill -
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
Albert Einstein -
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
William Henry Harrison -
Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
Albert Einstein
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In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad intellectual conscience was at least exposed by that!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
Adam Ferguson -
I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
Adam Faith -
I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.
John Travolta -
I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
Ernest Gaines