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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 one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"Public opinion is a second conscience."
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"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."
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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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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
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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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"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."
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"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
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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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"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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"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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"You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools."
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"It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs."
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"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
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"I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling."
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"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
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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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"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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"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
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"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."
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"To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven."
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"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
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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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"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience."
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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"We were a country band with a social conscience."
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"If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics."
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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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"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."
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"The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive."
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"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it."
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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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"To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead."
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"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
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"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."
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"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."
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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
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