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Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.

Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.
– Harper Lee

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  1. …but before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.The one thing that doesn’t abide by mojority rule is a person’s conscience. – Harper Lee
  2. …but before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. – Harper Lee
  3. Every island to a child is a treasure island. – PD James
  4. What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? – Wyndham Lewis
  5. Can you see a serene island in the middle of a stormy ocean? And the wise man is that calm island! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  6. Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. – Machado de Assis
  7. Till now, madness has been thought a small island in an ocean of sanity. I am beginning to suspect that it is not an island at all but a continent. – Machado de Assis
  8. If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
  9. Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom. – Pearl Zhu
  10. I willed myself to stay awake, but the rain was so soft and the room was so warm and his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept. – Harper Lee
  11. LET EACH ONE OF US GIVE OUR BEST TO GROW THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE OF HUMANITY. – Seema Brain Openers
  12. I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me. – Watchman Nee
  13. We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains. – Watchman Nee
  14. Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles-”and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others. – Billy Graham
  15. The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. – Leo Tolstoy
  16. As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons. – Harper Lee
  17. How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord’s, not ours? – Watchman Nee
  18. Lord, I am willing to break MY heart that I might satisfy THY heart. – Watchman Nee
  19. Be the watchman of your values to safeguard your character. – Tasneem Haneed
  20. The idea of waste only comes into our Christianity when we underestimate the worth of our Lord. – Watchman Nee
  21. If you don’t doubt it, be ’bout it. Intuition is soul’s watchman. – TF Hodge
  22. His brain and his heart knew this, but he couldn’t stop himself, and the razor of his conscience lent the undeniable thrill of pain to the act. – Robert Girardi
  23. In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one’s mind incapable of definite purpose. – Harper Lee
  24. I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks. – Harper Lee
  25. Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen. – Harper Lee
  26. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee
  27. Alexandra had been married for thirty-three years; if it had made any impression on her one way or another, she never showed it. – Harper Lee
  28. I just know Maycomb. I’m not in the least sensitive about it, but good Lord, I’m certainly aware of it. – Harper Lee
  29. So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. – Harper Lee
  30. Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open. – Harper Lee
  31. Whatever she says to you, it’s your jobnot to let her make you mad. – Harper Lee
  32. The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. – Harper Lee
  33. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn’t make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much. – Harper Lee
  34. One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can’t do anything about them. – Harper Lee
  35. But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. – Harper Lee
  36. There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one. – Harper Lee
  37. As Kipling said, that’s another story… – Harper Lee
  38. It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. – Harper Lee
  39. She was the bravest person I ever knew. – Harper Lee
  40. Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about? – Harper Lee

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