#conscience

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

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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. ↗

— Harper Lee

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A clear conscience is a sure card. ↗

— John Lyly

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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience. ↗

— Ed Markey

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I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

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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 A. Clark

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Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. ↗

— Michael Novak

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We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. ↗

— Carl von Ossietzky

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The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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