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Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.


Madame Dudevant

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WADAH KHANFAR Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.
RON LUCIANO First you have to learn the rules of the game, then you have to know the game better than anyone els...
APURVA GAGLANI It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE People make the rules of society, not God.
V.C. ANDREWS There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the o...
RAINBOW ROWELL (Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it k...
CHRIS DEE Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the ...
NORMAN COUSINS If the church does not become the leader in the battle against the negativity that rules in society,...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH I knew he was trying to hit me, ... I asked the umpire to do something about it, but he did nothing....
ANDY SLYKE I knew he was trying to hit me, ... I asked the umpire to do something about it, but he did nothing....
ANDY VAN SLYKE One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone...
SUSAN HOWITCH If there are rules, we're the ones making them. We can change them whenever we want to.
ISAAC MARION We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of consci...
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NINA GEORGE Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but h...
FRANCIS I (FRANCOIS) Madame Bovary is myself.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT We are the only ones who can bring God into the society to save it
SUNDAY ADELAJA Politics is the process by which a society chooses the rules that will govern it.
DARON ACEMOğLU Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
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WALLACE STEGNER Fear nothing but your conscience.
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OSCAR WILDE I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one ...
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ROBERT PICKERSGILL Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.
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CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER Nothing is good in this society. This patriarchal society is bad.
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OSCAR WILDE Break the rules this fucking world set for you but never ever break the rules the ones you set for y...
SUPERNA BATHEJA There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
SAINT AMBROSE It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
MELINA MARCHETTA For current media outlets, this is nothing more than a restating of the rules,
DAVID WOLF Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
JENNIFER ARMENTROUT She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a b...
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GEORGE ORWELL He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD Madame Jean is not a sovereigntist,
JEAN LAPIERRE A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
ELIZABETH I I've always believed that the artiste is the one who has his pulse on the society and who, in ma...
ANTHONY CARMONA A non-reading society is nothing but a miserable society; a non-reading nation will be nothing but a...
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PRATIBHA PATIL The only strategy to protect and preserve a nation is to establish the golden rules and principles o...
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FAYE DUNAWAY What's 'suitable for kids' defines what sort of kids we as a society want. And right now, the girls ...
JASON PORATH Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evi...
BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON Everybody would like to be remembered, the catch is do you want to be remembered for all the wrong r...
GARY F EVANS... For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
GREG CHALMERS For a longtime we crawl on this earth like caterpillars, waiting for the splendid, diaphanous butter...
BERNARD HOLLAND according to conscience and principle and nothing else.
ALAN KEYES There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called c...
ROBERT BURNS Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
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BEN SCHNETZER I love rules and I love following them, unless that rule is stupid.
ANNA KENDRICK Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
OSCAR WILDE The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE The ones who are having a hard time are seeing only the gender rules and norms and how their kids ar...
CAITLIN RYAN The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
IZAAK WALTON Schoolyard rules. Nothing has changed.
BRIAN MCCOMB It's too bad when a few misbehave that so many end up punished. When it comes to the issues of disci...
LARRY PENLEY Teach your little ones about the rules of decent behaviour. When they grow up, it will be too late t...
ERALDO BANOVAC The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.
NAT KING COLE SHUT DOWN; don't follow the system. They're the ones making the rules but they twist them.
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KATHARINE WHITEHORN The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.
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ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN There are no rules, because life is made up of too many rules as it is.
JENNIFER NIVEN What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL At stake in this case is nothing less than the essence of a free society.
JOHN PAUL STEVENS At stake in this case is nothing less than the essence of a free society,
JOSE PADILLA The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
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DEDRICK D. L. PITTER It sounds like we are trying to make new law here and we are really not.
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