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“Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.”

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Book:Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Source: Leviathan: Top 100 Classic Novels

“Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.”

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Author:Fausto Cercignani

“Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.”

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Author:William Godwin

“Are you angry? Be angry at your sins, beat your soul, afflict your conscience, but strict in judgement and a terrible punisher of your own sins. This is the benefit of anger, wherefore God placed it in us.”

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Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.”

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Book:The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany

Source: The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany

“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”

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Book:The Knowledge of the Holy

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.”

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Author:Janet Frame

“I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense of conscience is by far the most important....It is the most noble of all the attributes of man.”

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Author:Charles Darwin

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

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Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.”

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Book:A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

Source: A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee

“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent - that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgement.”

“When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.”

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Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis