Quotes 81 till 100 of 176.
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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.
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It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
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It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
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Judaism's campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
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Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.
"Quote unquote" by Lloyd Cory, (1977) p. 70 -
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.
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My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
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Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
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