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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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  Tags in Conscience, Courage

• A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

  Topics in English Proverbs

  Tags in Conscience

• O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

  Dante Alighieri

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• The New England conscience doesn’t keep you from doing what you shouldn’t – it just keeps you from enjoying it.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

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  Tags in Keep, Conscience
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  There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

  Topics in French Proverbs

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• Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

  Unknown

  Topics in Inspirational, Justice

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Injustice, Action, Duty, Conscience

• 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

  Topics in Inspirational, Sacrifice

  Tags in Purity, Greater, Peace, Labor, Conscience, Difficult

• Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what’s most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that’s very difficult when you reach this age.

  Mstislav Rostropovich

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  Tags in Conscience, Reach

• I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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  Tags in Conscience, Sleep

• Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

  Budd Schulberg

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  Tags in Living, Conscience, Driving

• Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

  Budd Schulberg

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• If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.

  Ida B. Wells

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  Tags in American, Punishment, Conscience

• 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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  Tags in Appeal, Conscience

• Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I’m teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

  David Eddings

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• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. 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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  Tags in Conflict, Purpose, Conscience, Difficulties, Creed, Credo

• There’s so few people in this town with a conscience.

  Blake Edwards

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  Tags in People, Conscience

• A man’s conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn’t do – but it does not keep him from doing it.

  Frank Howard Clark

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  Tags in Conscience, Warning

• Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

  Bernard Cornwell

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• Conscience without judgment is superstition.

  Benjamin Whichcote

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  Tags in Conscience, Judgement

• You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

  Giacomo Casanova

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  Tags in Conscience