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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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compass, School, Conscience

• 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.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Conscience

• My conscience is clear.

  Jim Lehrer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conscience

• Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in God

  Tags in Conscience

• Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.

  Pratibha Patil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guided, Conscience

• I’ve never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they’re capable of anything.

  Laurie Holden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fan, Conscience

• The media doesn’t need a conscience; people need consciences.

  John Hockenberry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conscience, Media

• A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast.

  Georg Buchner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Man, Conscience
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  The one thing that does not abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

  Harper Lee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rule, Person, Majority, Conscience

• Protestantism has actually put a man in the position of a country governed by secret police. The spy and eavesdropper, ‘conscience,’ watches over every motion of the mind, and all thought and action is for it a ‘matter of conscience,’ i.e. police business.

  Max Stirner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conscience, Protestantism

• Before the sacred, people lost all sense of power and all confidence; they occupy a powerless and humble attitude toward it. And yet no thing is sacred of itself, but by declaring it sacred, by my declaration, my judgment, my bending the knee; in short, by my – conscience.

  Max Stirner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Toward, Conscience
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  When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Topics in Justice, Politics, Service

  Tags in Reform, Rebellion, War, Duty, Conscience

• Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

  Anne Frank

  Topics in Attitude, Experience, Spirituality

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Change/Growth, Learning, Conscience

• I can’t in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.

  Edward Snowden

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Basic, Conscience

• Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen R. Covey

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Awareness, Change, Freedom, Talent, Choice, Imagination, Conscience
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  Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Friendship, Life

  Tags in Writing, Purpose, Conscience, Book

• There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

  Hartley William Shawcross

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Leader, Conscience

• Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Music, Feeling, Conscience, Directly
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  Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

  Richard Bach

  Topics in Honesty, Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Measure, Listen, Conscience, Inspiration

• The Roots of Violence:
  Wealth without work,
  Pleasure without conscience,
  Knowledge without character,
  Commerce without morality,
  Science without humanity,
  Worship without sacrifice,
  Politics without principles.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Humanity, Politics, Religion, Sacrifice, Work

  Tags in Nonviolence, Worship, Ethics, Sharing, Character, School, Violence, Virtue, Conscience, Science