#conscience

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. ↗

— Albert Camus

#definition #government #more #nothing #policy

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. ↗

— Donald Cargill

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One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart. ↗

— John Dewey

#conscience #deeds #good #good intentions #heart

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. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#communication #conscience #follow #future #going

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. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#approves #brave #business #conduct #conscience

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. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#conscience #dignity #harmony #intelligentsia #live

Conscience without judgment is superstition. ↗

— Benjamin Whichcote

#judgment #superstition #without

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#conscience #coward #enough #faults #justice

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. ↗

— Robert Hall

#conscience #first #last #matters #prudence

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#backs #conscience #continuously #doing #even