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Tag Name "Conscience" (1308)

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A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom opinion than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another...
W. H. Auden
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A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
Georg Buchner
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Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience we forget what we knew in our dream.
Erich Fromm
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It's a rare human being who understands intellectually and emotionally the freedoms contained within our Constitution and the right of every human being to make decisions about their own lives consistent with their own conscience and without the interference of government.
Geoffrey Fieger
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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.
Martin Luther
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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
Ambrose Bierce
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While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further. It compels the spectator to examine one facet or another of his own conscience. It stimulates thought and sets the mental juices flowing.
Sidney Lumet
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A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.
Joan D. Vinge
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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.
Lee Greenwood
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A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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A good conscience is a continual feast.
Francis Bacon
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Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
Omar N. Bradley
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The best tranquilizer is a clear conscience.
Benjamin Franklin
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The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
Charles Caleb Colton
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If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.
Leo Tolstoy
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I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
Cathy Guisewite
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We must imagine our lives well. We must engage our conscience. Conscience is the voice of God in the nature and heart of man.
Laura Kasischke
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Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Seneca the Younger
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Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
Fulton J. Sheen
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
Mary Augusta Ward
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All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience.
David O. McKay
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The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
Winston Churchill
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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.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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