A Quote by Stella Benson

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

Stella Benson

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Conscience Delicious Excellent Misunderstood

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Stella Benson
English - Novelist
January 6, 1892 - December 7, 1933

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

E. B. White

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).

Tariq Ramadan

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Jeff Henderson

Politically it's easy to salve one's conscience, no matter that salving it rarely makes the problem go away. You join the Labour Party, write articles attacking the privileged, give the money you spend on opera tickets to homeless charities, and vow never to go to anything that can be considered elitist again.