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Conscience Quotes by Famous Authors
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“You may be quicker than others to feel sickened by violence and ugliness, and you likely have a very strong conscience.”
Susan Cain
Emotional Sensitivity
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Conscience
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Response To Violence
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Empathy
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Moral Awareness
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“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
Victor Hugo
Conscience Voice
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Speaking Force
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Conscience
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Voice
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Force
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Speaking
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“Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.”
John Milton
Peace
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War
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Spiritual Struggle
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Freedom
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Conscience
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“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.”
John F. Kennedy
Conscience
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Leadership
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History
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Blessings
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Morality
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Responsibility
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“Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Judgment
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Philosophy
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Idealism
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Conscience
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Human Nature
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“Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.”
Anne Frank
Conscience
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Inner Strength
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Integrity
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Wisdom
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Self-Discovery
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“Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Integrity
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Crime
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Justice
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Conscience
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Accountability
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“Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act if all the world were looking at you, and act accordingly.”
Thomas Jefferson
Self-reflection
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Integrity
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Action
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Responsibility
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Conscience
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“When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul’s code.”
Stephen Covey
Purpose
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Passion
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Work
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Calling
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Conscience
10.
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Conscience
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Compassion
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Action
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Humanity
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Responsibility
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“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Conscience
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Self-Discovery
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Authenticity
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Philosophy
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Identity
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“We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.”
Michel de Montaigne
Education
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Memory
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Understanding
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Conscience
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Critique
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“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Peace
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Society
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Conscience
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Harmony
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Justice
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“We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith
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Integrity
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Determination
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Conscience
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Movement
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“Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.”
Michel de Montaigne
Vice
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Repentance
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Conscience
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Moral Suffering
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Human Psychology
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“Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Vengeance
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Morality
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Conscience
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Emotional Conflict
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Human Nature
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“Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Vanity
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Politics
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Conscience
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Morality
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Ethics
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“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”
George Bernard Shaw
Action Dominance
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Social Conscience
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Action
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Dominance
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Conscience
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Social
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“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our powers of judgment are more completely exposed by being over-praised than by being unjustly underestimated.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Praise
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Judgment
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Philosophy
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Conscience
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Human Nature
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“Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”
William Butler Yeats
Regretful Past
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Lingering Thoughts
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Weighed Conscience
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Regret
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Conscience
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Memory
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“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,’ said Atticus, ‘but 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.’ When.”
Harper Lee
Personal Conscience
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Moral Integrity
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Respecting Opinions
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Conscience
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Integrity
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Respect
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“They asked if I knew what ‘conscientious objector’ meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.”
Malcolm X
Conscience
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Resistance
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Justice
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Identity
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Awareness
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“There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one’s conscience.”
Simone de Beauvoir
Conscience Action
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True Good
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Act
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Conscience
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Good
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True
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“There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.”
George Bernard Shaw
Bigot Conscience
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Moral Danger
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Bigot
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Conscience
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Danger
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Morality
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“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Justice
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Conscience
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Morality
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Ethics
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Authority
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“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Conscience
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Morality
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Courage
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Position
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Integrity
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“The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.”
Stephen Covey
Integrity
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Vision
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Discipline
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Passion
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Conscience
28.
“The sewer is the conscience of the city.”
Victor Hugo
City Conscience
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Sewer Reflection
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Urban Truth
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City
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Conscience
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Urban
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“The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother’s keeper.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Conscience
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Oppression
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Responsibility
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Justice
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Humanity
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“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Conscience
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Courage
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Self-Belief
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Integrity
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Individuality
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