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Conscience meaning
The ethical or moral sense of right and wrong, chiefly as it affects a person’s own behaviour and forms their attitude to their past actions. | A personification of the moral sense of right and wrong, usually in the form of a person, a being or merely a voice that gives moral lessons and advices. | Consciousness; thinking; awareness, especially self-awareness.
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Example sentences (20)
And part of the lesson is that every movement for social change requires the conscience of people like John Brown, but people like John Brown can sometimes follow their conscience too far.
Generally speaking,* you are correct that if your conscience is the one telling you ‘Thou Shalt Not’, then you are sinning if you do not follow your conscience even if the Church is indifferent.
A related argument is from conscience; John Henry Newman argued that the conscience supports the claim that objective moral truths exist because it drives people to act morally even when it is not in their own interest.
A 43-year-old gun shop owner in Georgia is shutting down his store, saying he can no longer sell weapons in good conscience.
Adam Smasher was the Arasaka clan's strongest enforcer and a man without a conscience.
Also, he is usually respectful to other commentators and has a conscience.
Although, Mr Sunak said the annual vote would be "a matter of conscience" and a free vote for MPs, the idea has been lampooned by some of his backbenchers and condemned for being anti-freedom.
And then they walk out with a perfectly clear conscience and a free night, while the speechwriter is left to actually write the thing.
A vulgar pleasure of the “John Wick” series is that it aestheticizes violence without the usual blah-blah rationales and appeals to conscience.
Axiom’s 2023 GC Survey Report: Economic Volatility Tests Role of GC as Conscience of the Company asks an essential question about how GCs perceive themselves: Are GCs the guardian of corporate values?
Belafonte, the civil rights and entertainment giant who began as a groundbreaking actor and singer and became an activist, humanitarian and conscience of the world, has died.
But her personal appeals and appeals by various for MPs to vote according to their conscience were ignored, with all MPs voting according to party lines on Wednesday.
But numerous accounts of Trump reveal him to be thin-skinned, addicted to flattery, a megalomaniac, demagogic, impulsive, vindictive, a sociopath, and a narcissist who lacks empathy or a social conscience.
But please do listen to the still, small voice of your conscience.
Chief Martin Onovo was the 2015 presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP) and head, Policy Movement for Fundamental Change (MFC).
Consider that his role is to act as the conscience of the BBC and control its executive.
Dafinone is a flawless political discovery, a man of conscience and dignity who will not sacrifice Urhobo for anything.
Dina Boluarte does not have a guilty conscience, neither as a candidate, nor as Vice-President, nor as a Minister, or even less as President.
Even in the sacrament of marriage, the sexual life of the spouses is the subject of an examination of conscience to confirm that it is a true expression of love and that it helps growth in love.
Gary King, of Amnesty International, in preliminary remarks, noted that Assange was the epitome of what they call a prisoner of conscience: someone imprisoned by their government not for violence but for speaking inconvenient truths.