Best conscience & refuse Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.”

Should Law Conscience Bounds Leaving Refuse Righteous Undone

Book:Commentary on Galatians

Source: Commentary on Galatians

“In the wildest anarchy of man's insurgent appetites and sins there is still a reclaiming voice,--a voice which, even when in practice disregarded, it is impossible not to own; and to which, at the very moment that we refuse our obedience, we find that we cannot refuse the homage of what ourselves do feel and acknowledge to be the best, the highest principles of our nature.”

Source: On the Power Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man by Thomas Chalmers

“If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't.”

Ifs Home Order Asks Conscience Let Me Jew Refuse Excuse Commanders Excuse Me

Author:Naftali Bennett

“We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's relentless advance and those who refuse to be silent partners in the destruction. More and more people of conscience are joining the effort to resist, but the time has come to make this struggle the central organizing principle of world civilizations.”

People World Kind War Faces Effort Principles Struggle Civilization Conscience Consequence Destruction Silent Refuse Partners Civil War Relentless Joining

Book:Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

Source: Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose

“In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.”

Men Order Evil Conscience Refuse Being True Alternatives Righteous Righteous Man

Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

“I'm nervous about the prospects of an America that refuses to abide by its best conscience and its best lights and its best angels.”

Light America Conscience Angel Refuse Nervous Prospects

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.”

Source: The Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated Edition): Novels, Short Stories, Memoir, Travel Books, Letters, Biography, Articles & Speeches: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, Life on the Mississippi, Yankee in King Arthur's Court…

“It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there are no exemptions for people who, for reasons of conscience, refuse to financially support the bureaucracy that actually does the killing. Apparently, the state takes money more seriously than life.”

People Doe States Reason Support Military Duty Conscience Notes Killing Refuse Active Curious Bureaucracy Exemption

Author:Karl Hess

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