Conscience Quotes
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.
Winston Groom
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Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
Joseph Cook
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It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.
Karl Hess
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What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look on his face then, but it was gone in a flash. It had been a simple moment of peace and joy and pure happiness. That voice made Hale happy. It kept him calm. It was his backup and his conscience. Macey couldn't help herself, she envied him.
Ally Carter
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Let Christians all understand that conscience is between themselves and God alone. They are not at liberty to impose even their freedom of conscience upon another; but by the laws of the kingdom of Christ, they are obliged even to refrain at times from exercising their own freedom, out of consideration for others.
Ellet J. Waggoner
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
Thomas Carlyle
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As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.
Mike Rounds
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Something deep in our conscience tells us that hostility is part of the problem to be overcome in the world, not the means by which problems will be overcome. Hostility is a symptom of the disease, not part of the cure.
Brian D. McLaren
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Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.
William Butler Yeats
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The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
Norman Maclean
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Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.
Connie Brockway
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It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge.
Bob Marley
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The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
William E. Gladstone
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Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Evan Esar
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The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Izaak Walton
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There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.
Mother Teresa
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Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
Caspar Weinberger
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A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
Eric Van Lustbader
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Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Deep down am I superstitious? No. Do I believe in trying to be as kind as possible and as compassionate as possible because ultimately you're alone with yourself and your own conscience, and you want that to be as clear as possible? That's not superstition. You have to just try and stay pure and know what you value.
Nicole Kidman
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The “religious freedom” promoted by Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, the Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Religious Right of Ken Ham and Tony Perkins is a fraud and a scam; it is antithetical to true freedom of conscience and belief.
Barry W. Lynn
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I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.
Martin Luther