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"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
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"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
"There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot."
"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."
"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."
"Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind."
"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
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