Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.Mark Twain
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I submit that 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 law.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.Thomas Merton
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.Leo Tolstoy
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.Mahatma Gandhi
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Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.Tariq Ramadan
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Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.Robert Redford
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'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.Thomas Paine
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Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.Thomas S. Monson
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.Adam Smith
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The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.Ida B. Wells
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Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.Thomas Aquinas
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With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.Jean Piaget
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.Edmund Burke
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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 Covey
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.Mahatma Gandhi
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Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James Freeman Clarke
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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.Martin Luther
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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.Leo Tolstoy
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The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.Ellen G. White
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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.Thomas Paine
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I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You've got to be truthful. I don't think you should be vulnerable every day, but there are moments where you've got to share your soul and conscience with people and show them who you are, and not be afraid of it.Howard Schultz
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It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.Chris Kyle
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.Bertrand Russell
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The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.Voltaire
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.Leonardo da Vinci
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Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.Thomas Jefferson
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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.Ogden Nash
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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.Robert South
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I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.Davy Crockett
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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.Michel de Montaigne
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