Quotes tagged ‘Conscience’

(50 total)

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”

“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”

“In our sleep, we have access to the same dimensions of consciousness that exist after death. Thus, much healing, reprogramming, and channeling can be done in our sleep.”

— Conscious Arrival, instagram.com

“The more wisdom you attain and the more conscious you become, the crazier you will appear to others.”

— Conscious Arrival, instagram.com

“We are a nation of conscience, and I found partners on the other side of the aisle who agree with me on these issues. And we can build from there. In fact, when I first came to the Senate, people laughed. I had people telling me, 'There's no way you're going to get a comprehensive criminal justice r…”

— Cory Booker, npr.org

“Personnel Officer: How's your driving record? Clean? Travis Bickle: It's clean, real clean. Like my conscience.”

— Paul Schrader, Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro, imdb.com

“I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think sentimental, but which my generation calls simple human decency. And I miss my home, because I'm beginning to get scared shitless, because all of a sudden it's clos…”

— Paddy Chayefsky, Max Schumacher, William Holden, imdb.com

“Humility is something that unfortunately we have lost. I think in many ways America is losing its conscience as a result of the hate and the vitriol and the divisiveness that is being spewed by this president and his enablers. I believe that the majority of Americans do not hate each other.”

— Howard Schultz, ca.sports.yahoo.com

“Well... guess he won't need me anymore. What does an actor want with a conscience, anyway?”

— Carlo Collodi, Ted Sears, Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited), Cliff Edwards, imdb.com

“Now, remember, Pinocchio: be a good boy. And always let your conscience be your guide.”

— Carlo Collodi, Ted Sears, The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited), Evelyn Venable, imdb.com

“When we recruit sources, we pull them in with a sin, something they’ll do anything to keep buried, but when you cross the line, you recruit yourself. Then you start doing worse and worse things to keep it all buried. And then, over time, the bodies under the floorboard, they eat away at whatever’s l…”

— Cameron Litvack, Liam O'Connor, Josh Hopkins, imdb.com

“I mean, whenever I would do something crappy on Earth, there would be a little tiny voice in the back of my head that would say, 'Eleanor, don't grab that handful of olives from the salad bar. You know, you didn't pay for that,' or 'Eleanor, don't spit those olive pits onto the floor of the grocery…”

— Cord Jefferson, Eleanor Shellstrop, Kristen Bell, imdb.com

“The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe.”

— Frederick Douglass, en.wikiquote.org

“The stars are like trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. What I've done up 'till now, what I'm going to do—they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Is it unnatural that I should have absorbed these things and have become what I am today, a treacherous, degenerate, brutal, human savage, devoid of all decent feeling, without conscience, morals, pity, sympathy, principle or any single good trait? Why am I what I am?”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings. I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies Larcenys, [sic] arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. for all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not…”

— Carl Panzram, amazon.com

“The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense—there’s a kind of soul-murder going on.”

— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com

“Most of us have some kind of positive goal in mind when we think of winning. A sociopath thinks in terms of successfully manipulating someone into doing something that he or she would not have done otherwise. That can be a small thing or a tremendous thing, but the point for the sociopath is to win,…”

— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com

“Well, the perfect victim, from the sociopath’s point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him some good in the world and who is also fun to manipulate. How much fun is it to manipulate someone who is stupid and incompetent? Another good person to manipulate is someone…”

— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com

“Another lynchpin is dishonesty. Lying for the sake of lying. Lying just to see whether you can trick people. And sometimes telling larger lies to get larger effects. The other thing that needs to be stressed is that sociopaths are often extremely charming. They are people who are better than you and…”

— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com