William Ellery Channing Quotes
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
-
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
-
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
-
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!
-
If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
-
Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
-
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
-
By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
-
We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.
-
A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.
-
A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor.
-
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
-
A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
-
Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
-
The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.
-
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
-
Over the long term, there will be many more billion-dollar technology companies than there are today.
-
These are special fans. That was a great 14,000 fans - they were terrific. The NIT is a chance for some of our fans who don't have season tickets to help our team, which they did tremendously. I think our guys responded like there was a lot at stake, because there is a lot at stake.
-
The Environmental Protection Agency rarely follows up prosecuting coal companies and their fellow polluters, even when the evidence is clear-cut that they are dumping and poisoning entire towns near their projects, and the state regulators are even worse.
-
He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.
-
We are one another’s angels.
-
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
