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the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Conscience'

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It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.
Maurice Hinchey, -
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
Paul Hindemith, German Musician (1895-1963)
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes, English Philosopher (1588-1679)
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Douglas Horton, American Clergyman (1891-1968)
Conscience is God present in man.
Victor Hugo, French Author (1802-1885)
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
Anne Hutchinson, American Clergyman (1591-1643)
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
William Ralph Inge, English Clergyman (1860-1954)
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer (1833-1899)
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.
Andrew Jackson, American President (1767-1845)
Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
Victoria Jackson, American Comedian (1959-  )
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Henry James, American Writer (1843-1916)
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson, American President (1743-1826)
When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason I would like to put my daughters with their mother, one thing. Another thing, I'd like to clear my conscience.
Robert Jenkins, English Soldier
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Jerome K. Jerome, English Author (1859-1927)
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
James Weldon Johnson, American Poet (1871-1938)
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
Lyndon B. Johnson, American President (1908-1973)
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, American Activist (1968-  )
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
Barbara Jordan, American Lawyer (1936-1996)
 
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