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Arianna Huffington: “Ethics should precede economics... We know this because we've seen the results of capitalism without conscience: the pollution of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat; the endangerment of workers; and the sale of dangerous products -- from cars to toys to drugs. All in pursuit of greater and greater profits.”
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.”
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Benjamin Franklin: “A good conscience is a continual Christmas.”
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Jim Hightower: “The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. ”
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Madame de Stael: “The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.”
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Madame de Stael: “Conscience is doubtless sufficient to conduct the coldest character into the road of virtue; but enthusiasm is to conscience what honor is to duty; there is in us a superfluity of soul, which it is sweet to consecrate to the beautiful when the good has been accomplished.”
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Immanuel Kant: “Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe -- the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. ”
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Will Rogers: “Mother's Day, it's beautiful thought, but it's somebody's hurtin' conscience that thought of the idea. It was someone who had neglected their mother for years, and then they figured out: I got to do something about Momma. And knowing Momma was that easy, they figured, 'we'll give her a day, and it will be all right with Momma.' Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. See?”
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Leo Tolstoy: “War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “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.”
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Izaak Walton: “Look to your health -- and value it next to a good conscience; for health is ... a blessing that money cannot buy.”
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William Shakespeare: “My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale. (Richard III)”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' 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 one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.”
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Doug Larson: “A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ”
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Oscar Wilde: “I can resist everything except temptation.”
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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “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.”
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Lillian Hellman: “I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.”  more
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Anne Frank: “Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.”
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John Calvin: “The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. ”
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Hannah Arendt: “What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
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Martin Niemoller: “When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church -- and there was nobody left to be concerned.”  more
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Erich Fromm: “The paradoxical -- and tragic -- situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.”
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Christopher Reeve: “I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.”
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Robert Coles: “Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?”
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Abraham Lincoln: “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.”
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Martin Niemoller: “First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt: “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
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Kenneth Kaunda: “The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.”
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Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC: “Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.”
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Martin Niemoller: “In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
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