#conscience

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. ↗

— Carl von Ossietzky

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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. ↗

— Franz von Papen

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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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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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. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#bad #body #chill #conscience #fragile

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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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. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. ↗

— Sophocles

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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. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

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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. ↗

— Robert South

#conscience #credit #devotions #dress #easter

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. ↗

— Shirley Temple

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