Conscience Quotes - Page 23

• Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

  Joseph Joubert

  Punishment, Soul, Crime

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Giving, Judging, Feelings

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

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• And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

  Frederic Bastiat

  Heart, Names, Liberty

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Giving, Political, Challenges

  Stanley Milgram (1992). “The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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• It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.

  Louis Simpson

  Complicated

  Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.191, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.

  John C. Calhoun

  Thinking, Wish, South Carolina

  Attributed to John C. Calhoun in Walter J. Miller "Calhoun as a Lawyer and Statesman", part 2 "The Green Bag" (p. 271), June 1899.

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• Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.

  Rollo May

  Artist, Race, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.26, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

  Henry Demarest Lloyd

  Religion, Church, Action

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• We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Long, Doe, May

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• I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Taken, Nazi, Duty

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• As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

  Lester Bangs

  People, Drug, Historical

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

  Liu Xiaobo

  Wisdom, Block, Struggle

  "China's endless literary inquisition" by Liu Xiaobo, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2010.

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• Go by your own conscience.

  Steve Chabot

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• I have a clear conscience.

  Wilhelm Canaris

  Clear, Clear Conscience

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• I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

  Chen Guangcheng

  Ask Me, Asks

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• The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.

  Harold H. Greene

  Men, Law, Justice

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• I dress up with a conscience when I think you'll be watching. I say all the right things, I don't know what I mean.

  Sheryl Crow

  Mean, Thinking, Dresses

  Song: Am I Getting Through, Album: The Globe Sessions, 1998

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• For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

  Martin Chemnitz

  Reading, Grace, Inquiry

  Martin Chemnitz (1971). “Examination of the Council of Trent”

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• We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Pain, Suffering, Today

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• Don't be ashamed to let your conscience be your guide.

  Aaron Neville

  Philosophy, Guides, Ashamed

  Song: Tell It Like It is, Album: The Very Best of Aaron Neville, 2006

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• God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Atheist, Atheism

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.

  Edward Snowden

  Nsa, Citizens, Destroyed

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions", www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace with our conscience. Without conscience there would be no morality. So we can greet guilt cordially and with acceptance, just as we do all other emotions. After we respond to guilt, it has done its job and we can release it.

  Glenn R. Schiraldi

  Beautiful, Jobs, Acceptance

  Glenn R. Schiraldi (2007). “10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image”, p.126, New Harbinger Publications

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• Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

  Jacques Lacan

  People, Secret, Mysterious

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