Conscience Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of no secret deceit; who are the same in act as they are in desire; who conceal no thought, no tendencies of thought, from their own conscience; who are faithful and sincere witnesses, before the tribunal of their own judgments, of all that passes within their mind. Such as these shall see God.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Blessed, Heart, Soul

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1972). “Selected Essays on Atheism”, Ayer Company Pub

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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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• It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

  Stefan Zweig

  Would Be, World, Foolhardy

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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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• Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes itself heard only to give us orders and establish prohibitions, we cannot recognize our own voices; the very tone in which it speaks to us warns us that it expresses something within us that is not of ourselves.

  Emile Durkheim

  Order, Voice, Giving

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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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• Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

  Barbara Deming

  Nice, Doe, Action

  Barbara Deming (1984). “We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader”

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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 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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• 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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• Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Capes, Cages

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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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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• There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

  Andrea Jung

  Community, Moral, Investment

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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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• We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

  Tracy Chapman

  Pain, Philosophy, Suffering

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• I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

  Tim McGraw

  Decisions You Make, People, Guy

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• I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.

  Laurie Notaro

  Writing, Arizona, Journalism

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