A Quote by Roger Williams

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

Roger Williams

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Roger Williams
English - Theologian
1603 - 1683

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries.

Roger Williams

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Jonathan Edwards

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

Jonathan Edwards

Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."

J. C. R. Licklider

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Ogden Nash

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Josephus

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.

George Saintsbury

It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent

H. L. Mencken

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in terms of the special effects technology. You're not limited to any particular running time.

George R. R. Martin

Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray.

G. Campbell Morgan

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

Thomas a Kempis

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Samuel Johnson

For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

Geoffrey Chaucer

It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.

Charles Grandison Finney

We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution.

Plutarco Elias Calles

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

Leo Tolstoy

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