Conscience Quotes - Page 24

• Go by your own conscience.

  Steve Chabot

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• I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

  Charles Edison

  Men, Want, Clear

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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 Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

  Sergio Aragones

  Behavior, Results, Boogeyman

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• As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be.

  Don McLean

  Evil, Soul, Loved Ones

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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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• 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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• My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.

  Clarke Peters

  Jobs, War, Thinking

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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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• 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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• I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Writing, Giving, Joy

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• The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.

  Criss Jami

  Hater, Pride, Men

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.82, Criss Jami

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• The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

  Criss Jami

  People, Perception, Mind

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.117, Criss Jami

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• A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They all show us the true path! Keep them in your life to remain safe in the rocky and dark waters of life!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Book, Dark

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• Our Constitution... has not left the religion of its citizens under the power of its public functionaries, were it possible that any of these should consider a conquest over the conscience of men either attainable or applicable to any desirable purpose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Atheism, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.147

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• Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Real, Years

  "Make your hearts firm". Pope Francis' message for Lent 2015 from the Vatican, w2.vatican.va. October 4, 2014.

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• Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

  Russell Kirk

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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• The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability, and usefulness.....Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

  James McHenry

  Strong, Men, Order

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• The end of education is to see men made whole, both in competence and in conscience.

  John Dickey

  Men, Ends, Made

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• A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God

  Michael L. Brown

  Cleansing, Access, Prerequisites

  Michael L. Brown (2014). “Hyper-Grace”, p.49, Charisma Media

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• Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience

  Thomas a Kempis

  Men, May, He Man

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• We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Lying, Philosophy, Book

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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