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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."

"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."

"Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race " it is beyond religion " it is beyond all sectarianism."

"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."

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

"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."

"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."

"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."
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"It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias."

"So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it."

"Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy."

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

"The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours."

"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
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