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Conscience Quotes
"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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"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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"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."
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"Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience."
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"As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience."
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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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"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
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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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"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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"Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience."
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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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"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."
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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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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."
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"Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain."
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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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"Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination 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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"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
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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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"It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles."
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"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
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"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."
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"Conscience without judgment is superstition."
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"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."
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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
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"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
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"Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on."
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"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."
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"The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience."
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"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience."
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"Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart."
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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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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism."
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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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"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
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"A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it."
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"Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right."
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"I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty."
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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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"I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity."
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"We cannot be indifferent to the evil in our society."
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