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Conscience Quotes
"There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched."
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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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"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."
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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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"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 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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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."
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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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"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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"Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on."
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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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"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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"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
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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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"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 is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain."
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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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"No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference."
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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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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
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"It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible."
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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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"These five values are the organic origins of what could be called intuitive conscience. They are also what we experience personally as our core, essential yearnings, however distorted or confused we may interpret them: to care and be cared for; to share equally in freedom and responsibility; to belong, and to trust that what we belong to will continue; that there exists an objective hierarchy of virtue and wisdom; that there exists that which is unquestionably sacred or divine."
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"Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience."
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"This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a criminal to death. And now he is going to pay for it."
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"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."
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"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
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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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"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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"So there we have it. I get up in the morning determined to do something approximating to the right thing, and with in two hours find something to feel guilty about."
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"Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and Itrembled lest my very moral perceptions should become deadened, my distinctions of right and wrong confounded, and all my better faculties be sunk, at last, beneath the baneful influence of such a mode of life. The gross vapors of earth were gathering around me, and closing in upon my inward heaven; and thus it was that Mr. Weston rose at length upon me, appearing like the morning star in my horizon, to save me from the fear of utter darkness; and I rejoiced that I now had a subject for contemplation that was above me, not beneath."
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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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"The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience."
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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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"Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart."
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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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