Conscience Quotes
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To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.
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A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
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Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
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One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
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Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
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It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.
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It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience.
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Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.
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The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which is equitable and good it is for them to direct their own movements, to seek in the their conscience reasons for their actions, and to perform them simply, without either fearing punishment or looking for reward.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.
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Humanity’s moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely…
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Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.
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One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
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And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.
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I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
