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If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.
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We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
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I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
Victoria Jackson
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
Thabo Mbeki
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
James Larkin
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William Ellery Channing
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
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One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
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No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.
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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.
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To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
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I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
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Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
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