#conscience

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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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. ↗

— Irving Layton

#halo #self-esteem

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

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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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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

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Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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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. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen." (Reply to the Diet of Worms, April 18, 1521) ↗

— Martin Luther

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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

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