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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."

"Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutiny upon our neighbors instead of upon ourselves. We judge in order not to be judged. We uphold the law, because it is easier than to defy it. We are all lawbreakers, all criminals, all murderers, at heart. It is not our business to get after the murderers, but to get after the murderer which exists in each and every one of us. And I mean by murder the supreme kind which consists in murdering the spirit."

"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."

"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."

"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."

"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
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"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."

"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much."

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