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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
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Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no
people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year
earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?
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I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out
all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
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What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover
of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil;
but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and
which no conscience but his own can teach.
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The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
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An individual who breaks a 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 the law.
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
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Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
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First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a
Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was
no one left to speak for me.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only
that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow
brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves
his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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The paradoxical -- and tragic -- situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
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Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
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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.
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Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the
moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure
by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things
refuse to be mismanaged long.
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