#conscience

The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience. ↗

— Ed Markey

#acts #being #captors #conscience #degrading

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. ↗

— Robert McNamara

#could #global #itself #neither #nor

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

#banner #conscience #demands #external #freedom

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#development #hinduism #independent #reason #scope

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

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. ↗

— Charles Edison

#conscience #except #i #make #my own

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#conscience #fears #innocent #nothing

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#conscience #cultures #exploitation #human #yet

I have a clear conscience. ↗