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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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 bite of conscience is indecent.
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Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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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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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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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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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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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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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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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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The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.
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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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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
