Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas
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of those things which you perceive to be wrong or
imperfect is to be one more per... WAYNE DYER To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more per... WAYNE DYER Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer... SAMUEL RUTHERFORD Technology, the Law of Equation and the English Language all have one shortfall, that even school te... APURVA GAGLANI The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The President is merely the most important among a large number
of public servants. He should be s... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup... THEODORE ROOSEVELT The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be sup... THEODORE ROOSEVELT In this life evil men always wrought evil aided with the religious light called conscience. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug... SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug... ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any... DAVY CROCKETT When man decides to vent evil,he anaesthetizes the stumbling block which is his conscience. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the ... VINT CERF Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroy... EDWARD SNOWDEN This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of th... AL SHARPTON What is wrong is wrong and what is right is right. If it is therefore wrong to do what is wrong, the... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shew... BIBLE Was Karla herself caught in Paul's web, a victim? Or did the fact that she joined him in his crimes ... KARLA HOMOLKA Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To ... POPE FRANCIS If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt... FRANCIS OF ASSISI You run ahead? Are you doing it as a shepherd? Or as an exception? A third case would be as a fugiti... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disa... ALDO LEOPOLD There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched. CHARLES KURALT Conscience is not white, black or brown. Conscience is human. It is beyond race – it is beyond rel... ABHIJIT NASKAR Working conditions in U.S. meat and poultry plants should trouble the conscience of every American w... JAMIE FELLNER We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hi... CLAUS VON STAUFFENBERG Honesty was for those who could afford it, like heating or electricity or a conscience. STACIA KANE To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, o... THEODORE ROOSEVELT Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you... ANTONIN SCALIA Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about le... STACY KEACH Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing... HARPER LEE Evil becomes good to the conscience that is immuned to evil. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A person who is an ethically right has to only fight for own rights against the big battalion of the... ANUJ SOMANY Your faith is your conscience, and your conscience is your faith. You cannot have faith without a co... SUZY KASSEM Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil consc... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to lo... MARK TWAIN To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies... ALEISTER CROWLEY War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the... LEO TOLSTOY War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approv... THOMAS PAINE We don't want this argument to be obscured by those who would suggest that anyone who is for more an... DAVID KEENE Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary We cannot divide either man ... JAMES DENNEY It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best. STEVE BACKLEY If you have the will to accumulate knowledge it has to be used in the way it was intended to be used... GARY F EVANS... The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the co... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. By God and upon my conscience", said the devil, "I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with s... MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA When a person denies his conscience for too long, it can become seared. That person becomes suscepti... HENRY HON In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual w... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I am not for the left or the right, but for what is right over the wrong. I am not an elephant or a ... SUZY KASSEM Success comes to those who become success conscience. Failure comes to those
who indifferntly allow ... NAPOLEON HILL He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it... JEREMY BENTHAM A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however mu... NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is n... MAX LERNER Modern Education may make one intelligent but not wise. Wisdom comes from character, social consciou... JERONINIO ALMEIDA The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most ERICH FROMM He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God. SUZY KASSEM Be wary of any man who intentionally ignores another man's record of deeds or work history simply to... SUZY KASSEM The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is — not to give him th... GEORGE MACDONALD Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality t... ADAM MCKAY [Kerrey has said he feels guilty about what happened and unable to justify it militarily or morally.... BOB KERREY Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant th... JOSTEIN GAARDER What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep kn... ELIZABETH GASKELL We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And spec... GARY L. FRANCIONE Evildoers delight in hiding themselves; shun appearing; are bewildered when discovered; being accuse... TERTULLIAN Always talk to the man about people in such a way that he might tell them everything whatever you sa... VIKRANT PARSAI The term “musalman” refers to someone with “musallam iman”, that means, a pure conscience. T... ABHIJIT NASKAR The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that tho... ERIC HOFFER How wild it was, to let it be. T. S. ELIOT This is a tragic case but you've made something of it, ... This court seeks to deter further terrori... ROYCE LAMBERTH The wise man knows that not all those who sit in his camp are with him and not all those who sit in ... DR HITESH C SHETH He sees it as a battle between good and evil. He sees it as the evil being the acts of individuals, ... PETER PACE There are a number of qualities that I've looked for in a Supreme Court nominee. I believe that the ... CHUCK GRASSLEY The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appea... ARTHUR KOESTLER Life Is full of choices so, choose wisely DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ
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ISAIAH THOMAS All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K... ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team. ISAIAH THOMAS We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players. ISAIAH THOMAS We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ... ISAIAH THOMAS It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into... ISAIAH THOMAS My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro... ISAIAH THOMAS The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t... ISAIAH THOMAS It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ... ISAIAH THOMAS Everybody wants to be perfect. ISAIAH THOMAS You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha... ISAIAH THOMAS