Sentence examples for conscience of man from inspiring English sources

He quotes Edgar Allan Poe: "Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burthen so heavy… that it can be thrown down only into the grave".

The appeal to the moral conscience of man has never been as necessary as it is today… For the danger comes neither from progress nor from science; if these are used well, they can help to solve a great number of the serious problems besetting mankind (Address to the United Nations Organization, 4 October 1965).

Citizenship endorses the unity of the conscience of man and the public laws, of reason and authority, and of spirit and the flesh.

Yet Selma, Alabama, became a shining moment in the conscience of man.

It plays on the minds and consciences of men.

I was struck by the quoted abstract from CP Scott's famous 1921 essay that one of the most important aspects of a newspaper is it that should "play on the minds and consciences of men".

The ex-BBC political editor and former Guardian deputy editor, John Cole, an Observer executive with Astor in the mid-1970s, said: "He subscribed to the dictum of CP Scott [Manchester Guardian editor from 1872 to1929] that the purpose of serious journalism was 'to bear on the minds and consciences of men'.

As George Washington wrote to the Quakers after he became president: "Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the persons and consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but, according to their stations, to prevent it in others".

Albert Tucker painted Man's Head to capture the moral disintegration, and lack of conscience, of a man convicted of kicking a dog to death.

The second is simply a speculation about the mystery of nature that lies around us; the first is a practical question affecting the common conscience of a man and the consequences of his own action.

Opening with an Author's Note stating "This is a book about the conscience of a man", the story tells of a German sergeant, a convicted war criminal remembered by the French as the Butcher of Nogent-Plage, who returns to the area twenty years after the war's end, to play soccer.