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“This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only wh...”
“The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't.”
“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 be...”
“This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it.”
“A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.”
“Integrity is more than truth and honesty; integrity is an unshackled mind, a happy heart, and a light spirit. Integrity is inner peace with a clear, clean conscience. Integrity is self-respect, hon...”
“Between you and you, let there be no secrets. ~T.F. Hodge”
“To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense.”
“What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. Its having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.”
“...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself.The one thing that doesn't abide by mojority rule is a person's conscience.”
“But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.”
“What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?”
“How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to draw the line, and we showed up with an eraser?”
“Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.”
“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
“You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. Its important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.”
“Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.”
“-Why do men like you do the job you do? It cant be for the medals. And its certainly not the money.Stone said nothing.-Why then? God and country?-Both simpler and more complex, Mr. President.-What ...”
“In this sense every serious choice has a tragicomic dimension. For it is impossible to be a human being without choosing, and it is impossible to choose without value denials, and it is impossible ...”
“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distingui...”
