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#conscience

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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. ↗


— Martin Sheen


#between #catholicism #church #conscience #faith

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it. ↗


— Isaac Bashevis Singer


#doing #england #enjoying #just #keep

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ↗


— Adam Smith


#clear #clear conscience #conscience #debt #happiness

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. ↗


— Ezra Stiles


#conscience #enjoyment #exercise #free #interest

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong. ↗


— Thomas Hardy


#cruelty #love #loved #sexes #unrequited

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question, “Is it right?”... The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy. ↗


— Martin Luther King Jr.


#cowardice

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. ↗


— H.L. Mencken


#definitions #ethics #humor #humor

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. ↗


— Thomas Merton


#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

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. ↗


— Michelangelo Antonioni


#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

There's so few people in this town with a conscience. ↗


— Blake Edwards


#few #few people #people #town






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