What Conscience Is

Posted on March 21, 2003 in Thinking

To be nobody but yourself in a world that is trying its best night and day to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight and never stop fighting.

e.e.cummings

Conscience is not something you can claim to be following when you are intoxicated by popular sentiment, dogma, propaganda, or the “necessity” of following orders. You must be stone cold sober and thinking for yourself.