When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Evil societies always kill their consciences.
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.
We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.