Arcangela Tarabotti Quotes

Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

Arcangela Tarabotti

• Conscience
• Wicked
• Temerity

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• It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Age
  • Guilty
  • Conscience

• There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Justice
  • Conscience
  • Court

• Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Conscience
  • Self-Esteem

• Everyone still thinks I'm Scottish - that's totally wicked.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Everyone
  • Wicked
  • Scottish

• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hope

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Sense

• Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Law
  • Moral

• By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Memory

• As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Man
  • Failure

• 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
  • May
  • Friend
  • Conscience

• To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.

  

  Vittorio Alfieri
  • Crime
  • Wicked
  • Virtuous

• Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Conscience
  • Creatures
  • Human being

• 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
  • Law
  • Authority
  • Conscience

• 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
  • Conscience
  • Philosophers
  • Contradiction

• Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

  

  William Henry Harrison
  • Humans
  • Stills
  • Conscience

• Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Country
  • Conscience
  • Says

• 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
  • People
  • Conscience
  • Hatred

• Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Question
  • Looks
  • Conscience

• The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Thing

• The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Nature
  • Cutting
  • Communication

• beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Tears
  • Horror
  • Shade

• Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

  

  Arcangela Tarabotti
  • Conscience
  • Wicked
  • Temerity