Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering,...
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Thomas Hardy
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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Richard Bach
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
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Mark Twain
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Leo Tolstoy
More Quotes By Martha Stout
A part of a healthy conscience is being able to confront consciencelessness. When you teach your daughter, explicitly or by passive rejection, that she must ignore her outrage, that she must be kind and accepting to the point of not defending herself or other people,...
In northwest Alaska, kunlangeta "might be applied to a man who, for example, repeatedly lies and cheats and steals things and does not go hunting, and, when the other men are out of the village, takes sexual advantage of many women." The Inuits tacitly assume...
We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat... By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick! "-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may...
As for the boys..."vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matter what.
I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to....
