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“Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.”

War Would Be Voice Justice Speech Conscience Mere Illness Absence Graves Our Society Symptoms Dissent Prevailing

Book:The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren

Source: The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren

“It goes beyond mere 'acknowledgment' of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context. In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.”

Matter Government Purpose Individual Left Sides Religious Prayer Taken Atheism Citizens Exercise Conscience Function Mere Positive Atheism Instance Sole Secular Acknowledgment

Author:Barbara Brandriff Crabb

“In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.”

Care Holy Conscience Mere Noble Mortals Enjoyment Gravity Idleness Trifles Proceeding Frivolity Incapability

Book:Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.

Source: Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.

“Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.”

“And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?”

Should Kind Doe Moving Doors Particular Pride Please Taste Conscience Asking Mere Paint Dues Doctrine Holiness Dislike Keepers Reluctance True Ones

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to appreciate the benefits of a private school education. If only I'd had the opportunity to attend a place like this, who knows what I might have become? Perhaps instead of a mere blood-spatter analyst who slunk away at night to kill without conscience, I could have become a doctor, or a physicist, or even a senator who slunk away at night to kill without conscience. It was terribly sad to think of all my wasted potential.”

Source: Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)

“The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.”

Religious Praying Conscience Mere Mentor Pope Crew Assembly Frogs

Book:Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

Source: Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

“When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?”

“We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.”

Giving Law Force Conscience Fundamentals Lays Mere Arbitrary

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?”

Humans Earth Animal Views Compassion Taught Empathy Standards Conscience Mere Mindset Exploitation Commodity Vicious Lied Procedures Disrespect Lied To Me Standard Operating Procedures

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.”

Ifs Needs Mother Duty Conscience Mere Faithful Ownership Qualms Qualms About Faithful Service

Book:End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

Source: End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier

“When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.”

Thinking Heart Wonder Lord Mystery Shapes Conscience Mere Intellect Unfolding

Book:Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III

Source: Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III