It can be indefensible, too: An act of conscience describes an action motivated by loyalty to a conviction, but it usually requires the defiance of other loyalties.
How can citizens in these countries face up to the horrors of the past?" It turns out that the gulag museum is part of an association it helped establish in 1999, the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience, described as "a network of organizations committed to teaching and learning how historic sites and museums can inspire social consciousness and action".
Shore's three books, Revolution of the Heart, The Cathedral Within and The Light of Conscience, describe his transition from the political world to one of innovative community service that encompasses social change, acts of conscience and resourceful leadership.
Mansour and the Sisters of Mercy made their 1980s decisions based on what they saw as the promise of freedom of conscience described in the Second Vatican Council of 1962 1965 presaged by the Ad Petri cathedram, a papal encyclical of 1959 which said, "Let there be unity in what is necessary, freedom in what is unsettled and charity in any case".
It spawned what the veteran snooker writer, and the game's abiding conscience, Clive Everton, described as an "inequality of incentive" in certain matches.
When Joseph Conrad spoke of "the vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience", he was describing Congo under Belgium's King Leopold II, but his phrase has not dated.No one knows how many people died.
To turn and to run and have to live with that would be hell for anyone with the kind of powerful conscience we are describing.
Re "Tax-Sheltered Funds for the Conscience" (Mutual Funds Report, Jan . 6, which discussed funds that let investors avoid military-related stocks: Whose "conscience" was being described?
Luther describes conscience as the work of God in the mind of man.
Re "A New Way to Ask, 'How Green Is My Conscience?' " (June 25), which described consumers' purchase of environmental offsets, to make up for the pollution caused by the events of everyday life: As the article said, the challenge for consumers wishing to reduce their "carbon footprint" is to understand how much their dollars help the environment.
