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"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
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"We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep."
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"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"

"Public opinion is a second conscience."

"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."

"The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it."

"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."
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