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“Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.”

Way Accepting Willing Demand Authority Conscience Consequence Penalties Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.”

Humans Hands Personality Depends Balance Demand Conscience Mental Health Urges Maintenance Egocentric

Book:The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

Source: The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood

“The pseudo-conscience ... demands not obedience to the inner law of our being, but conformity to super-imposed convention.”

Law Demand Conscience Obedience Conformity Conventions Pseudo

Author:Frances G. Wickes

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”

War Humanity Peace Difficult Perfect Greater Sacrifice Demand Conscience Labor Purity Heroic Antiwar Heroism Fidelity Achieving Peace

Book:The Nonviolent Alternative

Source: The Nonviolent Alternative

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”

Life Trying Form Change Our Lives Demand Conscience Resolution Deep Thought Impossibility

Book:Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

Source: Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

“Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.”

Want Believe Seems Cities Demand Intellectual Conscience Majority Desert Solitary Again And Again

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.”

Men Enough Demand Conscience Men And Women Conservative Debate Innocent Penalties Death Penalty Sanctity Innocent Life

Author:Rod Dreher

“Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.”

Want Doe Asks Answers Demand Conscience Horse Difficulty Riders

Author:Alois Podhajsky

“Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortification of a false vision called conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and independence which only a very few can bear.”

Men Should Self Humanity Vision Taken Bears Morality Demand Conscience Independence Dirty Providence Restraint Degrading Mortification Liberators

Author:Adolf Hitler

“When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?”

“But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.”

Firsts Law Political Order Religious Lord Ten Demand Conscience Tables Realms Regulation Commandments Civil Society Ten Commandments Magistrates

Author:Roger Williams

“If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.”

Ifs Pain Force Ability Acting Demand Authority Conscience Despite Awake

Book:The Sociopath Next Door

Source: The Sociopath Next Door

“The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.”

Ifs Spiritual Political Nations Social Written Movement Demand Conscience Internals Banner

Author:Franz von Papen