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Letter "C" » conscience
«The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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«There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience»
Author: French Proverb
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Conscience
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«The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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Sin
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«Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
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«The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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«The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
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conscience, haven, havens, liberty, sacred
«No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Against the man, authority, civil, civil authority, civil right, conscience, constitution, constitutions, dearer, enterprises, ought, protects, provision, rights
«People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.»
«The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Conscience
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