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“He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual rights led some to anoint him the moral conscience of the court.”

Years Sometimes Individual Justice Moral Rights Republican Conscience Built Court Protection Reputation Fierce Lifelong Individual Rights Moral Conscience

Author:Judy Woodruff

“A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity.”

Self Turns Individual Effort Existence Responsibility Land Ethics Conscience Capacity Conviction Preserves Conservation Renewal Ecological Individual Responsibility Land Conservation

Author:Aldo Leopold

“Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.”

Humans Wells Play Funny Individual Dog Conscience Evidence Species Display Adulthood My Dog Puppy Canine Dog Love Man And Dog Love My Dog Humans And Dogs Dog Best Friend

Book:Mondo Canine

Source: Mondo Canine

“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.”

Inspirational Political Individual Responsibility Judging Judgment Conscience Judgement Service Culture Individual Responsibility

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality.”

“The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.”

World Mind Wells Individual Easy Freedom Common Democracy Study Awareness Conscience Victim Sake Individuality Flight Individualism Again And Again Confusing

Author:Joost Meerloo

“The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.”

Men Individual Highest Conscience Concepts Fellows Individuality Fellow Man Allegiance

Author:Ralph Nader

“The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.”

Doe Action Individual Enjoy Decision Virtue Mankind Conscience Practicals Agents Luxury Revolutionary Consistent Observers Rules For Radicals

Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to have comforted them in their weakness, to have justified their insignificance. The State had taken on its own shoulders the entire weight of responsibility; it had liberated people from the chimera of conscience.”

People Humans States Individual Human Beings Responsibility Taken Divine Weakness Conscience Weight Shoulders Immortal Soviet Justified Liberated Insignificance Chimera

Author:Vasily Grossman

“An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which is equitable and good it is for them to direct their own movements, to seek in the their conscience reasons for their actions, and to perform them simply, without either fearing punishment or looking for reward.”

Reason Moments Action Individual Moral Movement Masters Conscience Direct Rewards Punishment Comprehension Equitable

Author:Elisee Reclus

“Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps. But, In spite of their numerical inferiority, they play a major role in our society because theirs is the voice of the conscience of society.”

People Giving Play Science Individual Voice Moral Roles Five Greater Majors Percent Conscience Weight Spite Consideration Minorities Our Society Inferiority Expediency

Author:Leo Szilard

“Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.”

Kind Doe War Facts Earth Pain Individual Causes Community Responsibility Mankind Source Morality Ethics Conscience Misery Oppression Bitterness Sigh Sense Of Responsibility

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions