A feeling of social conscience and a greater feeling of joy and contentment.
Character Quotes
Anyone else on this page has about a third as many entries as Shakespeare. Next come Pope, Milton, James Russell Lowell and Goethe. The sentence worth reading in context is Emerson’s, from The American Scholar (1837): character is higher than intellect, and a great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think.
Shaw, in Man and Superman (1903), is here for a remark about marriage and morality, which shows how loosely the page’s topic is applied.
Three entries are flagged. Two sayings credited to the Roman mime-writer Publilius Syrus, one about character deciding every man’s fortune and one about doing nothing at once both hastily and prudently, are disputed. A passage credited to Joseph Addison, about imperfection being what complains of the imperfect, is marked misattributed.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
We think the conscience of the case is entirely on your side.
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
Only those who recognize the central role of conscience can build a civilization of peace and love.
There's no creature on earth so despicable and loathsome as a rich man with a conscience.