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conscience

«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.»
«Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort.»
«Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.»
«Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body»
«Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.»
«Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.»
«By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.»
«An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.»
«Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.»
«All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.»