Conscience

“Fikri hür, irfanı hür, vicdanı hür, bir şairim.”

“The main impulse was shame, the desire to consider oneself a decent person.”

“It isn't how good people may say you are, you know yourself whether you have made good; it's what you think when you lie in bed at night, considering what you have achieved that day, which really counts.”

“Antes quisiera yo ver desplomadas, no digo las instituciones de los hombres, sino las estrellas todas del firmamento, que ver caer del pecho humano el sentimiento de la justicia, ese sol del mundo moral.”

“The worst attitude is indifference.”

“To no person, no matter how wealthy, should we sell our soul. To no nation, no matter how powerful, should we mortgage our conscience.”

“In my church the commandment says ‘thou shalt do no murder’, and I believe that commandment.”

““The bastards, they do know and not only do they know, they don’t see anything wrong with it.””

“Even if I'm the only person in the world to believe something or stand for a certain value or principle, then I'll do it if that's what I believe to be right.”

“I hope it will always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me, that I was once an active instrument, in a business at which my heart now shudders.”

“The self-so and the imperative are not two separate matters.”

“Your conscience shouts, ‘here’s what you should do,’ while your intuition whispers, ‘here’s what you could do.’”