#consc

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#bow #conscience #even #expected #expense

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#because #body #cannot #conscious mind #cult thing

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. ↗

— Hartley William Shawcross

#answer #comes #conscience #his #leader

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#best #consciousness #doing #except #look

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. ↗

— John Tyler

#being #being responsible #conscience #created #fellow

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#also #always #birth #cloudy #consciences

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. ↗

— Angela Carter

#beginning #compatible #conscience #innocence #parent

An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

#country #intelligent #loyalty #opposition #part

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#approve #condemn #conduct #conscience #judgment

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed