Conscience Quotes
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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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Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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It is a kingdom of conscience, or nothing.
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No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences
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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
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I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetter’d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whate’er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; ‘Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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The bite of conscience is indecent.
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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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May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!
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I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
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When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience.
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I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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To ordain conscience for Heaven and Earth, to secure life and fortune for the people, to continue the lost teachings of past sages, and to establish peace for all future generations.
