Conscience Quotes
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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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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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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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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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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.
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
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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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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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The exploitation of women, mass hunger, disregard for freedom of conscience and for freedom of speech, widespread and racial discrimination all these evils are far too prevalent to be overlooked.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers.
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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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There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
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The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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A new world. A better world. A kingdom of conscience...a kingdom of heaven.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
