The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.
Gaylord NelsonTags: words future conscience today sacrifice generations heard not thanks willingness earth-day gary-nelson
The highest court is in the end one’s own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.
Max PlanckTags: science einstein belief conscience physics albert-einstein conviction
There is no conscience in a real war.
Toba BetaTags: life truth reality war conscience real
I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.
David SedarisTags: humor conscience guilt ponder
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma GandhiTags: majority ethics conscience
You govern people, you do good and bad things.
If you don't have guts to do bad, then step aside.
Tags: truth conscience government guts moral-compass
Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.
Toba BetaTags: conscience betrayal
Conscience defined by the elders,
passed on to the next generations.
Tags: conscience elders next-generations passed-on
Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law.
Nothing could be more absurd. Long before these commandments were given there were codes of laws in India and Egypt—laws against murder, perjury, larceny, adultery and fraud. Such laws are as old as human society; as old as the love of life; as old as industry; as the idea of prosperity; as old as human love.
All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new are foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left out the commandment about keeping the Sabbath, and in its place would have said: 'Thou shalt not enslave thy fellow-men.' He would have omitted the one about swearing, and said: 'The man shall have but one wife, and the woman but one husband.' He would have left out the one about graven images, and in its stead would have said: 'Thou shalt not wage wars of extermination, and thou shalt not unsheathe the sword except in self-defence.'
If Jehovah had been civilized, how much grander the Ten Commandments would have been.
All that we call progress—the enfranchisement of man, of labor, the substitution of imprisonment for death, of fine for imprisonment, the destruction of polygamy, the establishing of free speech, of the rights of conscience; in short, all that has tended to the development and civilization of man; all the results of investigation, observation, experience and free thought; all that man has accomplished for the benefit of man since the close of the Dark Ages—has been done in spite of the Old Testament.
Tags: progress love society murder civilization absurd conscience free-speech law fraud sabbath industry lawyers adultery free-thought prosperity old-testament india jehovah polygamy egypt perjury ten-commandments dark-ages judges larceny
Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George EliotTags: science dogma conscience mistake
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