#conscience

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#conscience #doing #i #just #me

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that. ↗

— Anita Hill

#did #fail #i #me #told

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

#american #any #citizenry #clear #companies

I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. ↗

— Van Jones

#cannot #colleagues #conscience #deck #defending

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#calls #come #conscience #conviction #everything

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#conscience #i #i think #inferior #leave

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 of them. ↗

— Mark Twain

#country #either #freedom #freedom of speech #god

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

#appeals #been #conscience #effectual #ever

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

#american people #any #arouse #citizen #conscience

Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish." Cosca's face hardened as he leaned forwards. "Perhaps when you have faced as many disappointments and suffered as many betrayals as I, you will see it - there is no principle beyond the selfish, Inquisitor, and men are animals. Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier. There have been many times in my life when I have wished it was not so. But it is so. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#cosca #humanity #morality #life