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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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"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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"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."
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"To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven."
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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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"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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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."
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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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"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
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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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"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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"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
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"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."
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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 Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."
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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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"The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive."
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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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"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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"Public opinion is a second conscience."
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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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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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"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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"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
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"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
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"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."
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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 cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience."
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"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
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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 want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience."
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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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"Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale."
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"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it."
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"We were a country band with a social conscience."
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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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"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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"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
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"The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it."
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