"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."

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"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."

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"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."

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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience."

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"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."

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"The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you."

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"For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity."

Martin Chemnitz, German Theologian

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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"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."

Henry Miller, American Author

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"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."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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