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Quotes tagged “Conscience”

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”
— H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
Tagged: Conscience, Inner Voice, voyeur, Paranoia
“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.”
— Lao Tzu, Conscious Arrival
Tagged: Conscious Arrival, Growth, Conscience, 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, Conscious Arrival
Tagged: Conscious Arrival, Sleep, Conscience, Healing, Death
“The more wisdom you attain and the more conscious you become, the crazier you will appear to others.”
— Conscious Arrival, Conscious Arrival
Tagged: Conscious Arrival, Wisdom, Conscience, crazy
“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 reform bill done.'”
— Cory Booker, Sen. Cory Booker Promises To Bring America Together. But How?
Tagged: Conscience, senate, criminal justice
“Personnel Officer: How's your driving record? Clean?

Travis Bickle: It's clean, real clean. Like my conscience.”
— Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver
Tagged: driving record, Clean, Conscience
“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 closer to the end than the beginning, and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me, with definable features.”
— Max Schumacher, Network
Tagged: Pain, Guilt, Conscience, Decency, shitless, Death
“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, Howard Schultz talks politics with Gwyneth Paltrow — and people have a lot of feelings about it
Tagged: Humility, America, Conscience, Vitriol, Divisiveness, Donald Trump, Hate
“Well... guess he won't need me anymore. What does an actor want with a conscience, anyway?”
— Jiminy Cricket (voice) (uncredited), Pinocchio
Tagged: actors, Conscience
“Now, remember, Pinocchio: be a good boy. And always let your conscience be your guide.”
— The Blue Fairy (voice) (uncredited), Pinocchio
Tagged: Conscience
“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 left of your conscience. Sometimes it’s better to let the bad guys get away with it than it is to be the one who gets away with it.”
— Liam O'Connor, Quantico, Season 1: Right
Tagged: recruit, sources, Sin, cross the line, Worse, buried, floorboard, Eat, Conscience, bad guys, Get Away
“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 store. That's not cool.' Or 'Eleanor, that old man just slipped on your olive pit, and he fell down. Don't use the fact that everyone's distracted to go back and steal more olives.'”
— Eleanor Shellstrop, The Good Place, Season 2: Derek
Tagged: Conscience, Bad, Olives, food, Bad Deed, joke, Irreverent
“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
Tagged: Right, Majority, God, Conscience
“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, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Stars, Nature, Conscience, human conscience, Secrets
“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
Tagged: Serial Killers, Treacherous, Degenerate, Brutal, savage, Psychopath, Conscience, morals, Pity
“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 worry me. I don’t believe in Man, God nor devil. I hate the whole damed [sic] human race including myself.”
— Carl Panzram, Lustmord: The Writings and Artifacts of Murderers
Tagged: Murder, Burglary, Robbery, Larceny, Arson, Sodomy, Conscience, God, devil, Misanthropy
“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, The Sociopath Next Door- Interview Magazine
Tagged: sociopaths, Conscience, Controlling Others, manipulation, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, Cruelty, What Winning Means to Predators, Soul Murder, Psychological Abuse, Narcissistic Abuse
“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, to make sure that this person does what they’re trying to coerce him or her into doing. It can be as disgusting and as simple as making a child cry. Or it can be as complex as making your wife feel bad about herself.”
— Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door- Interview Magazine
Tagged: sociopaths, Conscience, Controlling Others, manipulation, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, Cruelty, What Winning Means to Predators
“ 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 of high character, because that is also fun for the sociopath.”
— Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door- Interview Magazine
Tagged: sociopaths, Conscience, Controlling Others, manipulation, Pathological Lying, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, charm, Who Sociopaths Target, The Victims of Sociopaths Are Powerful
“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 me at charming people, at being charismatic.”
— Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door- Interview Magazine
Tagged: sociopaths, Conscience, Controlling Others, manipulation, Pathological Lying, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, charm

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