Conscience Quotes
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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.
Bill Clinton
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Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.
Stephen Covey
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Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.
Evan Esar
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So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
Dante Alighieri
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Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Evan Esar
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We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
Carl von Ossietzky
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In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.
John Ruskin
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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton