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Conscience Quotes
"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
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"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
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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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"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
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"The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive."
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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
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"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."
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"I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience."
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"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
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"The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it."
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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"No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference."
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"I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that."
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"The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would."
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"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
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"We were a country band with a social conscience."
4
"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."
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"You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools."
4
"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
4
"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."
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"To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven."
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"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
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"The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set."
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"The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience."
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"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune."
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"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
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"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
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"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action."
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"Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct."
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"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
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"The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience."
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"After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones."
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"Always listen to your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything. You discover your true faith when you start flowing with your conscience. After lessons, visions, and theories validate themselves to you, you begin to build faith in that hypothesis/feeling/idea that originated from your own heart and mind -- not that of others. Before you submit to any one religion, create your own first and then find out which one out there resonates closest with the one already in your heart."
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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."
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"So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong."
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"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."
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"Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind."
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"Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience."
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"Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins."
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