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If you look into the religions, they have this deep idea of human dignity and the source of dignity being conscience.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
The thing that we tell - that I tell - members is, 'Vote your district. Vote your conscience; just don't surprise us.'
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
The Conscience Protection Act would ensure no one is coerced to participate in abortions or to provide abortion coverage.
I think I have lived enough in this country where I can say what I think is true and which is the voice of my conscience.
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no seasons.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?
If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative.
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
No one ever wants to see his or her name linked to anything bad. Conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
We are leaving the E.U. I accept that. But I made a decision I was never again going to vote against my conscience, and that stands.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.
My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.
He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.
We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.
I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.