I felt like putting up a list of really good quotes that I found last night. Most of them will have a theme of conscience, sin, or justice.

“The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.‚Äù
-Ghandi

“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.‚Äù
-Ghandi

“Never do anything against the conscience, even if the state demands it.”
-Albert Einstein

“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… the power to choose, to respond, to change.‚Äù
-Stephen R. Covey

“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.‚Äù
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.‚Äù
-Thomas Jefferson

“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and congress and assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.‚Äù
-Thomas Jefferson

“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.‚Äù
-Thomas Jefferson

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, until you know there is no hook beneath it.‚Äù
-Thomas Jefferson

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.‚Äù
-George Bernard Shaw

“Other men’s sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.‚Äù
-Seneca

“Pleasure is the bait of sin.‚Äù
-Plato

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
-Buddha

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.‚Äù
-Buddha

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.‚Äù
-Buddha

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.‚Äù
-Buddha

“There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.‚Äù
-Buddha

“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security.‚Äù
-Benjamin Franklin

“The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.‚Äù
-Benjamin Franklin

“Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.‚Äù
-Benjamin Franklin

“Never confuse motion with action.‚Äù
-Benjamin Franklin

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