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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"Conscience is the parliament in our mind. It depends on who holds the majority."
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"It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate."
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"Believing without questioning is an insult to the human conscience."
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"Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race " it is beyond religion " it is beyond all sectarianism."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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"You'll have to be my conscience. He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. "Mine isn't going to grow back."
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"Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience."
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"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
Conscience
"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
God
"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."
People
"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."
Belief
"People change and forget to tell each other."
Change
"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."
Time
"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Baby
"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
Act
"Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier."
People
"Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice."
Courage
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