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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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"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
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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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"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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"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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"Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme."
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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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"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
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"It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world."
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"To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven."
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"The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin."
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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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"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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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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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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"Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore."
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"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the 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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"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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"Public opinion is a second conscience."
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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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"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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"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it."
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"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it."
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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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"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."
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"I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity."
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"We were a country band with a social conscience."
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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
7
"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."
7
"As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience."
7
"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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"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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