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Conscience

(noun) The moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects one's own behaviour. Example: "Your conscience is your highest authority."

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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
— C. S. Lewis
"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
— George Washington
"Precisely at the point when you begin to develop a conscience you must find yourself at war with your society."
— James Baldwin
"What does your conscience say? - 'You should become the person you are."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
"A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory."
— Mark Twain
"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
— William Shakespeare

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