Conscience Quotes
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The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.
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Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.
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What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
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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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In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad 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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Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
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For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it.
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Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
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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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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.
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Conscience is harder than our enemies, Knows more, accuses with more nicety.
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The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
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Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps, exceptions, or weaknesses it may contain, treats of the advance from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsity to truth, from darkness to daylight, from blind appetite to conscience, from decay to life, from bestiality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from limbo to God. Matter itself is the starting-point, and the point of arrival is the soul. Hydra at the beginning, an angel at the end.
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I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, and highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the pope and his followers, the papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws that their conscience orders them to burn my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity.
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Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.
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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.
