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"Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain."
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."
"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."
"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
"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."
"It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts."
"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
"A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it."
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"As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven."
"Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven."
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