"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."

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"Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Conscience, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"Gamache watched the old poet. He knew what was looming behind the Mountain. What crushed all before it. The thing the Hermit most feared. The Mountain most feared.Conscience....Which is why, Gamache knew, it was vital to be aware of actions in the present. Because the present became the past, and the past grew. And got up, and followed you.And found you ...Who wouldn't be afraid of this?"

Louise Penny, Canadian Author

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"Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to go back into oneself and listen to the voice of one's conscience in the silence of the passions? There you have true philosophy. Let us learn to be satisfied with that, and without envying the glory of those famous men who are immortalized in the republic of letters, let us try to set between them and us that glorious distinction which people made long ago between two great peoples: one knew how to speak well; the other how to act well."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."

Lion Feuchtwanger, German Novelist

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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

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"Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience."

Henry Waxman, American Politician

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"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."

Nicolas de Chamfort, French Writer

Conscience, Conviction, Mind

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Harper Lee, American Novelist

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"There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal."

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"Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it."

"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."

"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."

"To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead."

"Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience."

"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."

"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

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"Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out."

"I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court."

"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."

"All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right."

"My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion."

"When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing."

"I don't persuade to suicide."

"This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law."

"As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified."

"There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal."