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"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."
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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."
"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."
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"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage."
"We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?"
"It would be our policy to use nuclear weapons wherever we felt it necessary to protect our forces and achieve our objectives."
"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."
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