#conscience

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

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I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. ↗

— Jim Ramstad

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Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better. ↗

— Robert Redford

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People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. ↗

— Will Rogers

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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. ↗

— Martin Luther

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He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. ↗

— Martin Luther

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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

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I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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