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<p>A mistakenly cynical view of human behavior holds that people are primarily driven by selfish motives: the desire for wealth, for power, or for fame. Yet history gives us many examples of individuals who have sacrificed their own welfare for a cause or a principle that they regarded as more important than their own lives. Consciencethat powerful inner voice that tells us what is right and what is wrongcan be a more compelling force than money, power, or fame.
Assignment: Is conscience a more powerful motivator than money, fame, or power? </p>
<p>In modern society, increasing amount of people believe that selfish motives like wealth, power money and fame are the primary incentive of human behaviors. However, innumerous historical examples of individuals who have devoted their own welfare to pursue a belief that they regarded as more crucial and vital than their well being. It is fair to say that conscience, one of the most invaluable virtues, leads them to sacrifice personal benefits to accomplish a higher goal that could benefit the public and their descendants. Martin Luther King and John Rabe are such people, who motivated by conscience to benefit the pubic.</p>
<p>Martin Luther King, a strong worker for civil right for members of his race, who has dedicated lifetime to oppose and protest injustice towards Negro. His most well known address was I Have a Dream delivered during the peaceful mark on Wahington, D.C., which expressed his eager for equal rights amount different races. Its unnecessary for him to brought up such a controversial topic during that sensitive time period if Martin Luther King was motivated by selfish purpose because he was not victim of injustice. However, he did so because conscience, the internal motivation, leaded him to do the right thing even if he had to sacrifice. Because of advocation of civil right, he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times. One of the most famous and influential one is the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott, which causing him to be arrest almost 400 days. Martin Luther King would not have leaded these actions if he had regarded money or fame as his motivation because he suffered a lot for these processes. Conscience was the primary motivation because he believed that equal right should be granted to each single person regardless of races. Conscience, the inner voice, is more powerful than the external temptations like fame and money because it is revered and honored as one of the most precious virtues hold by human.</p>
<p>Similar to Martin Luther Kings supports of civil right movement, John Rabe, a German businessman, who is best known for his efforts to stop the atrocities of the Japanese army during the Nanking Occupation and his work to protect and succor Chinese civilians during the event. As a foreigner especially a member of the Nazi party, John Rabe can leave Nanking immediately to protect himself but he chose to stay and created the Nanjing Safety Zone to provide Chinese refugees with food and shelter from the impending Japanese slaughter. Dangerousness involved in his action is huge so what he did is fully motivated by his conscience and morality. Even though under the threaten of death, John Rabe still chose to negotiate with the Japanese Government and eventually provided Chinese particular Safety Zone like Nanjing University. Compare to money and fame, conscience is more powerful because it guide people the right direction like light.</p>
<p>We can see both examples shows that conscience is more powerful because it can lead people to follow the right pace regardless the temptation of money and fame.</p>