This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Conscience | Man |
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his own conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.
Conscience | Individual | Life | Life | Nothing |
The author who penetrates the deepest into the human soul is the one who has the strongest respect for the awakening power of conscience and the stretching power of commitment.
Awakening | Commitment | Conscience | Power | Respect | Soul | Respect |
I prefer charity to hospitality because charity begins at home and hospitality ends there.
Charity | Ends | Hospitality |
He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience which feels nothing, and a dumb conscience which says nothing, is in as miserable a condition as a man can be on this side of hell.
Conscience | Hell | Man | Nothing |
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
If our own conscience protests and refuses to accept praise then it is proof against the flatterer.
Conscience | Need | Praise | World |
Pythagoras, aka Pythagoras of Samos or Pythagoras the Samian NULL
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Anger | Ends | Folly | Repentance |
Our eating, trading, marrying, and learning are mistaken by us for ends and realities, whilst they are properly symbols only; when we have come, by a divine leading [illness?] into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or representative character of what we esteem final.
Our flag stands for "liberty and justice for all." Our flag must never be misused or defiled as a bandana for war crimes, as a gag against the people's freedom of speech and conscience or as a fig leaf to hide the shame of charlatans in high public office, who violate our Constitution, our laws and our founding fathers' framework for accountable, responsive government.
Conscience | Freedom of speech | Freedom | Government | Justice | Liberty | Office | People | Public | Shame | Speech | War |
The truth, the hope, of any time must be sought in the minorities. Michael Angelo was the conscience of Italy. We grow free with his name, and find it ornamental now, but in his own day his friends were few.
Most men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are must luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged: in the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience have been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.
It is the conscience alone which is a thousand witnesses to accuse us.
A person may sometimes have a clear conscience simply because his head is empty.
You’re searching... for things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings – there are no such things. There are only middles.
Ends |