Conscience Quotes
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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.
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I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.
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Conviction is the conscience of intellect.
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The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.
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We respect the individual conscience of every American on the painful issue of abortion, but believe as a matter of law that this decision should be left to a woman, her conscience, her doctor and her God. But abortion should not only be be safe and legal, it should be rare.
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Civilization no longer represents the conscience of the individuals who must find therein their work. The facts and forces which now organize industry and so-called justice, violate the best instincts of mankind.
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Conscience is its own readiest accuser.
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Being a man with a conscience I simply felt that I had to do something - anything! - about the world we live in.
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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.
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
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Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.
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Listen to your conscience regarding something that you simply know you should do, then start small on it - make a promise and keep it. Then move forward and make a little larger promise and keep it. Eventually you'll discover that your sense of honor will become greater than your moods, and that will give you a level of confidence and excitement that you can move to other areas where you feel you need to make improvements or give service.
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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
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Live so as to have a quiet conscience.
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The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.
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I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
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Money, influence, and human imperatives always spoke more loudly than conscience and God.
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Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them and don’t see anything wrong with it. They corrupt and kill and destroy, all without conscience. You just don’t have the capacity for something as honorable as loving another person.
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
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Show me a man without regrets and I’ll show you a man without a conscience.
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We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
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I think at you have to do what your conscience tells you to do.
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I have a clear conscience.
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Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.
