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"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."

"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."

"Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations."

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

"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."

"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."

"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."

"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
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"Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance."


"He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled."


"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."


"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."


"Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do."


"Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."
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