This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
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 |
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.
The person of integrity is a continuous person, for whom the present is a point on a line drawn out of memory and into the willed future, rather than an unpredicted and unwieldy configuration which seems to operate under its own law. The person of integrity is no superman; he will be, from time to time, defeated, frustrated, embarrassed and completely surprised. but neither is he the common and regular dupe of circumstance, compelled (like some tourist with a pocket dictionary) to consult conscience and emotion at each new turn of events.
Conscience | Events | Future | Integrity | Law | Memory | Present | Time | Will |
Robert Ingersoll, fully Robert Green "Bob" Ingersoll
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Conscience | Courage |
There is no witness so terrible - no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Conscience | Witness |
William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
Beauty | Conscience | God | Heart | Imagination | Love | Mind | Purpose | Purpose | Truth | Will | Worship | Beauty |
William Davenant, fully Sir William Davenant, also spelled D'Avenant
Honor is the moral conscience of the great.
Conscience | Honor |
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Conscience | Peace | Will |
The joy of a good man is the witness of a good conscience; have a good conscience and thou shalt ever have gladness.
Conscience | Good | Joy | Man | Witness |
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted.
Belief | Conscience | Opinion | Intellect |
A tender conscience is a stronger obligation than a prison.
Conscience | Obligation | Prison |
A guilty conscience is like a whirlpool, drawing in all to itself which would otherwise pass by.
Conscience | Guilty |
A guilty Conscience never thinketh it self safe.
Conscience | Safe | Self | Guilty |