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Conscience

(noun) The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour. Example: "Your conscience is your highest authority."

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"Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society."
— James Baldwin
"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"What does your conscience say? - 'You should become the person you are."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
— William Shakespeare
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory."
— Mark Twain
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
— George Washington
"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
— C. S. Lewis

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