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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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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
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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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"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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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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"No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference."
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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 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 wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."
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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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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 is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
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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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"I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that."
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"Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience."
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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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"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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"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."
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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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"To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense."
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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."
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"Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience."
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"Conviction is the conscience of the mind."
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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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"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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"As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience."
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"For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity."
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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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