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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
My claims were justified in all men's sight; I put my trust in equity and right; Yet, to my horror and the world's disgrace, Justice is mocked, and I have lost my case! A scoundrel whose dishonesty is notorious Emerges from another lie victorious!
How so much honourable is such a contest, in which one's moral conduct and achievement are brought as witnesses rather than the size of one's purse.
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The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong.
What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.
My morals are important to me.
Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel's plea, 'My forbears did the same.
Hypocrite sneers.
Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.
I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.
He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.
People who worry about me
worry about their conscience.
Petra Hermans
Babaji
September 6, 2016
You are remembered for the rules you break.
My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.
What I did, when I did it, was honest; now, through changed conditions, what I did may or may not be called honest. Politics demand, therefore, that I be brought to trial; but what is really being brought to trial is the system I represented.
A friend to honesty and a foe to crime
You will not be punished for you dishonesty, but you will be punished by your dishonesty.
We all cry out that the world is corrupt,
and I fear too justly,
but we never reflect, what we have to thank for it, and that itis our open countenance of vice, which gives the lye to our private censures of it, which is its chief protection and encouragement.
We all look with distaste on people who arrogantly pretend to a reputation to which they are not entitled; but equally to be condemned are those who, through lack of moral fibre, fail to live up to the reputation which is theirs already.
Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
to do wrong for the wrong's sake only
By God ye shall be called to account for your doings!
Morality never scratch the back of corruption
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and digested, Appear before
Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.
Moral vanity is the snare of good people.
conscience' sake
To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.
I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.
It is just as valuable to be censured by friends as it is splendid to be praised by enemies. We desire praise from those who do not know us, but from friends we want the truth.
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.
My vengeance is my guilt
Nothing gives one a more spuriously good conscience than keeping rules, even if there has been a total absence of all real charity and faith.
There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.
Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos ...
Let deeds match words.
How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a casualty of the little everyday crimes of ethical compromise.
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
Promise in haste, repent at leisure,
God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.
We all have done something unethical.
Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
Guilt is the thief of life.
We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.
Remorse weeps tears of blood.
You have been paying blackmail, not for your vices, but for your virtues.
We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience
I must do what my conscience bids. I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine.
I had made my reputation on integrity.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
GUILT SPILLS ITSELF IN FEAR OF BEING SPILT,
When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.
Tonight you will be visited by three spirits. The ghosts of indictment past, present, and future. They will teach you the true meaning of 'you are still a scumbag criminal.
Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: you must give, if you want to get.
Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.
It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
The bite of conscience is indecent.
A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.
The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.
Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime
There is an old saying, that there is honour amongst thieves, and so it often proves.
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
I beseech you,
Wrest once the law to your authority:
To do a great right, do a little wrong.
For a good many years now I have practised at the bar; and, if that fact offers no guarantee of unimpeachable veracity it at least furnishes presumptive evidence of a fairly robust moral epidermis. I may not be believed; but the frankest scepticism will leave me undisturbed and unabashed.
There is no fate which cannot be surmounted by scorn.
I owed no morality to those who would extort it by force
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;
Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!
Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.
When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
... a thief's heart is an impetuous organ, and while inwardly he throbs for absolution, at the same time he can't keep from bragging.
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
In a kingdom of thieves, the ways of an honest man will always be a crime.
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
If now a friend denies not what was given him in trust,
If he restores an ancient purse with all its coins and rust,
This prodigy of honesty deserves to be enrolled
In Tuscan books, and with a sacrificial lamb extolled.
They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd ... but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.