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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Under the not-so-watchful eye of ACS, children continue to die avoidable deaths. This is beyond unacceptable and betrays our moral conscience.
Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.
What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience?
When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.
I have a clear conscience and never let success get to my head. You know that when you achieve something, you can change the way you are very easily.
And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Canadians are known for having a social conscience, and so our political leaders need to do more to uphold that reputation on the international stage.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.
The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.
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.
Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.
Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.
When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.
He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.
My poet's heart gives me strength to face political problems, particularly those which have a bearing on my conscience.
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
American business needs more conscience, not less, whether from religious motivation like Hobby Lobby or from secular intentions.
It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!
My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework.
Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.
My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision.
It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.
Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.
The state has not only the obligation to stay neutral in matters of religion but also to ensure that freedom of thought and conscience of all individuals is protected.
It does not matter if you vote for the left or right, you are not an elephant or donkey. You are a truthful lion who stands only for your conscience.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
It is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality, and conscience.
This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.
