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Conscience Quotes
"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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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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"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."
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"The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping."
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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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"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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"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."
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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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"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."
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"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."
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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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"Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience."
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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
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"Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on."
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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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"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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"As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience."
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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 allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct."
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"The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience."
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"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."
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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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"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
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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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"Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain."
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"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
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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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"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."
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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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