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Unvoiced thoughts weave the tapestry of inward reflection, where silence nurtures grew perspectives, whispering truths that words may shatter.
Author:
Ava Morgan
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Choosing neutrality in moral conflicts may shield us from immediate discomfort, but silence often lets shadows bloom unchallenged.
Author:
Orion Staley
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It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
Author:
Loretta Young
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
Author:
William Yeats
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Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
Author:
John Wise
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
Author:
Wendell Willkie
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I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
Author:
Simon Wiesenthal
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
Author:
Benjamin Whichcote
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When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
Author:
Jerry West
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If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
Author:
Ida Wells
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Author:
Ida Wells
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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Author:
Carolyn Wells
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Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
Author:
Caspar Weinberger
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Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
Author:
Henry Waxman
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Author:
George Washington
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
Author:
Mary Ward
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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.
Author:
Jim Wallis
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The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Author:
Lech Walesa
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Author:
Leonardo Vinci
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
Author:
Charles V
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Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.
Author:
John Tyler
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Author:
Mark Twain
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I am considering two things on a daily basis: what is right to do and what is wrong to do in my role as President of my people. According to my conscience, I am trying to abide by the right. My vision is peace. My vision is prosperity.
Author:
Boris Trajkovski
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Author:
Cal Thomas
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The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
Author:
Shirley Temple
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Author:
Jeremy Taylor
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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.
Author:
Henry Taylor
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We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
Author:
Claus Stauffenberg
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Author:
Madame Stael
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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.
Author:
Robert South
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Author:
Bishop South
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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Author:
Sophocles
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
Author:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Author:
Logan Smith
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Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Author:
Logan Smith
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Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
Author:
George Smith
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
Author:
George Smith
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Author:
Adam Smith
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Author:
Isaac Singer
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Author:
Richard Sheridan
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Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Author:
Hartley Shawcross
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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
Author:
George Shaw
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Author:
George Sewell
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Author:
Lucius Seneca
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Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
Author:
Budd Schulberg
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Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
Author:
Budd Schulberg
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Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Author:
Hjalmar Schacht
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If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.
Author:
Antonin Scalia
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Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
Author:
Samuel Rutherford
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.
Author:
Mike Rounds
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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Author:
Will Rogers
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No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
Author:
Martha Reeves
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Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Author:
Robert Redford
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Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
Author:
Francois Rabelais
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
Author:
Salvatore Quasimodo
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I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
Author:
Pol Pot
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Author:
Kenneth Pike
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Author:
Robert Peel
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When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Author:
Pope Paul II
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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Author:
Jean Paul
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The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
Author:
Franz Papen
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'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Author:
Thomas Paine
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But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
Author:
James Otis
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We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
Author:
Carl Ossietzky
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Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
Author:
John Oldham
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Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
Author:
Michael Novak
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Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Author:
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
Author:
John Newman
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A satellite has no conscience.
Author:
Edward Murrow
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The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
Author:
Charles Munch
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
Author:
Michel Montaigne
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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Author:
Mary Montagu
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Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Author:
Thomas Monson
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On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
Author:
Maria Monk
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Author:
John Milton
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I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.
Author:
Jonathan Miller
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Author:
Thomas Merton
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Author:
Robert McNamara
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Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
Author:
James McHenry
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I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
Author:
Tim McGraw
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The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience.
Author:
Scott McClellan
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It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
Author:
Thabo Mbeki
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Author:
Harriet Martineau
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
Author:
Ed Markey
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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
Author:
Rose Macaulay
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The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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A clear conscience is a sure card.
Author:
John Lyly
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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Author:
Martin Luther
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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Author:
Martin Luther
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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Author:
Martin Luther
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My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
Author:
Blanche Lincoln
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Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
Author:
Jared Leto
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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Author:
Johann Lavater
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Behold, I am become a reproach to thy holy name, by serving any ambition and the sins of others; which though I did by the persuasion of other men, yet my own conscience did cheek and upbraid me in it.
Author:
William Laud
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A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Author:
Doug Larson
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Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
Author:
James Larkin
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The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
Author:
James Larkin
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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
Author:
Walter Landor
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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Author:
Alphonse Lamartine
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We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.
Author:
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
Author:
Charles Kuralt
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.
Author:
Eli Khamarov
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Author:
Thomas Kempis
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As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.
Author:
Stacy Keach
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Author:
Carl Jung
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
Author:
Barbara Jordan
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I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
Author:
Van Jones
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The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Author:
Jerome
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When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.
Author:
Robert Jenkins
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It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Author:
Thomas Jefferson
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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Author:
Henry James
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
Author:
Victoria Jackson
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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Author:
Andrew Jackson
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Author:
Robert Ingersoll
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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
Author:
William Inge
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
Author:
Anne Hutchinson
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Conscience is God present in man.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Author:
Douglas Horton
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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Author:
Thomas Hobbes
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
Author:
Paul Hindemith
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It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
Author:
Maurice Hinchey
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The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
Author:
Maurice Hinchey
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I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
Author:
Anita Hill
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
Author:
Lillian Hellman
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Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
Author:
Rutherford Hayes
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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Author:
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
Author:
Garrett Hardin
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One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.
Author:
Lee Hamilton
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In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.
Author:
Robert Hall
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Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
Author:
Lee Greenwood
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Author:
Harold Greene
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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Conscience is a man's compass.
Author:
Vincent Gogh
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Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
Author:
William Godwin
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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.
Author:
William Gladstone
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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
Author:
Marguerite Gardiner
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
Author:
Max Frisch
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We were a country band with a social conscience.
Author:
Kinky Friedman
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As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
Author:
Wilhelm Frick
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The delicate ballet of conscience in technology leads not to mere unison, but to a chorus of ideals that respect civilization while embracing innovation.
Author:
Alba Rivera
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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Author:
Benjamin Franklin
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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Author:
Anne Frank
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Author:
Michel Foucault
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
Author:
B. Forbes
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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.
Author:
Gustave Flaubert
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Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Author:
Lion Feuchtwanger
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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.
Author:
William Faulkner
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I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
Author:
Jerry Falwell
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We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
Author:
Arthur Erickson
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Author:
Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
Author:
George Eliot
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Author:
Albert Einstein
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There's so few people in this town with a conscience.
Author:
Blake Edwards
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I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.
Author:
Charles Edison
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Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
Author:
David Eddings
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I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
Author:
Matt Drudge
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The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.
Author:
John Dickey
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One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
Author:
John Dewey
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.
Author:
Barbara Deming
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Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Author:
Margaret Deland
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I didn't see my character, Core, as a cannibal but as somebody who is extremely passionate and who doesn't have any conscience. She takes her passion to its complete extreme.
Author:
Beatrice Dalle
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Author:
Edward Dahlberg
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The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.
Author:
Aleister Crowley
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It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
Author:
Davy Crockett
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Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Author:
Stephen Covey
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As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
Author:
Jerry Costello
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I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
Author:
Bernard Cornwell
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Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.
Author:
Bernard Cornwell
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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Author:
Joseph Cook
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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Author:
Joseph Conrad
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
Author:
William Congreve
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Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Author:
Harold Coffin
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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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James Clarke
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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
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Frank Clark
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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
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Lord Chesterfield
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For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.
Author:
Martin Chemnitz
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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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William Channing
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
Author:
William Channing
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Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
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Nicolas Chamfort
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Go by your own conscience.
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Steve Chabot
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Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.
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Robert Casey
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
Author:
Giacomo Casanova
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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
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Angela Carter
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History is not merely theater; when lived again for profit or spectacle, it must awaken a responsibility curated through truth.
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Clara Jaime
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
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Stokely Carmichael
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To summon history through the live lens of ethical obligation can illuminate truths or sequester them in an empathetic trance, balancing educational intent against potential distortions of living memory.
Author:
Ava Ryan
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Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
Author:
Donald Cargill
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I have a clear conscience.
Author:
Wilhelm Canaris
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Author:
Albert Camus
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By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Author:
Albert Camus
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
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John Calvin
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No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
Author:
Rocco Buttiglione
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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
Author:
Octavia Butler
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
Author:
Octavia Butler
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A good conscience is a continual feast.
Author:
Robert Burton
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Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership.
Author:
James Burns
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A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
Author:
Georg Buchner
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Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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I have no bad conscience.
Author:
Alois Brunner
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Author:
Pam Brown
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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Author:
Omar Bradley
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
Author:
Bono
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Author:
Josh Billings
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When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.
Author:
Kathryn Bigelow
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
Author:
Ingmar Bergman
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
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Max Beerbohm
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Author:
Jean Baudrillard
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That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
Author:
Isaac Barrow
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So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.
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Robert Barclay
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As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.
Author:
Lester Bangs
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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
Author:
George Bancroft
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
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Honore Balzac
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
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Walter Bagehot
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Author:
Richard Bach
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
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Francis Assisi
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The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
Author:
Sergio Aragones
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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
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Thomas Aquinas
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All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
Author:
Michelangelo Antonioni
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The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
Author:
Cleveland Amory
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For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.
Author:
John Amery
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Author:
Saint Ambrose
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Author:
Dante Alighieri
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Author:
Nelson Algren
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
Author:
William Alger
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We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.
Author:
Peter Akinola
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In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
Author:
Will Adams
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Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.
Author:
Will Adams
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Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
Author:
John Acton
