All 7 Uses
conscience
in
Civil Disobedience, by Thoreau
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- Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?†
conscience = feeling or appraisal of having personally behaved in a morally right or wrong manner
- Must the citizen even for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator?†
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- Why has every man a conscience then?†
- It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.†
- It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.†
- Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded?†
- We must affect our country as our parents, And if at any time we alienate Our love or industry from doing it honor, We must respect effects and teach the soul Matter of conscience and religion, And not desire of rule or benefit.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(conscience) feeling or judgment of morally right or wrong personal behavior
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)