Your burden is not to clear your conscience
But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S.)
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It has to be very, very clear. That is why I am talking so clear. This is my conscience speaking, the conscience of an Afghan person.
Hamid Karzai
To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi...
P. G. Wodehouse
Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther
Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes
freedom is inseparable from conscience. And even if it is true that all the ideas developed by the social conciousness are the product of evoolution, conscience at least has nothing to do with the historic process. Conscience, both as a sense and as a concept, is a priori immanent in man, and shakes the very foundations of the society that has emerged from our ill-conceived civilisation. (p234)
Andrei Tarkovsky
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