A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience. --Schiller, _The Death of Wallenstein_, 1799
Several of the gang members were standing around
in the hallway giggling. "Hey, Nicky, what's the
matter, baby, you got religion?" I looked up and
one of the girls stepped forward in front of us.
She pulled her halter up and exposed her bare
breasts for us to see. "You go in there,
honey, and you can kiss this goodbye."
I realize now they were jealous. They felt we were
going to share our love with God and they wanted it
all for themselves. This was all they knew about
love. It was all I knew about love. But at the
moment it made no difference. I pushed her away
spitting on the floor and said, "You make me sick."
Nothing else mattered at the moment except the fact
that I wanted to be a follower of Jesus
Christ--whoever He was. --Nicky Cruz (1938- ) _Run Baby Run_ [1968], "The Encounter"
Simone De Beauvoir, in 1949 attacked the idea that biology meant gender. She drew a distinction between gender (society’s ideas about what a man and woman should be) and sex or biology. There is no reason, feminists from Beauvoir onward would argue, for sex to be destiny. This really was a question of mind over matter, or imagination over genitalia.
For feminists, women were constrained by their bodies and biology. So, real freedom meant being able to imagine one’s way out of that constraint.
What might work for a fearsome feminist like Simone de Beauvoir, might not work for 14-year-old Tracy from Tadcaster, understandably worried that her mind and her hormones are not in sync.- Gavin Ashenden https://ashenden.org/2017/08/03/sanity-or-the-freedom-to-become-trapped/
Temptation is the voice of the suppressed evil; consciences is the voice of the repressed good. --J. A. Hadfield, _Psychology and Morals_, 1923
Conscience: the Inner voice which warns you that someone may be looking.--H. L. Mencken, _A Little Book in C Major_, 1916
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