Sentence examples for internal conscience from inspiring English sources

He contends that the "feeling of obligation" stems from "something that the internal conscience bears witness to in its own nature," and thus the moral law, unlike human laws, "does not originate in the will of a legislator or legislature external to the mind".

In effect, the west's reaction had been to treat the Kurds as an internal Iraqi affair; exterminating them en masse may have briefly stirred the international conscience, but it tended, if anything, to reinforce the existing international order.

And then there are internal dilemmas: your conscience tells you one thing but the norm is a different thing.

Employees felt intimidated by superiors; the institutions' internal voice of conscience and purpose was silenced by a maniacal focus on short-term profits and whatever scheme would bring them in.

What are your internal markers (or conscience) that allows for some actions but not others?

By the age of 6, the child starts to change the external guidance system (parents) to the internal guidance system (conscience).

The column, he said, was meant as an uncensored expression of an internal debate with his conscience.

Moreover, the process of self-criticism is part of the ego controls (Freud called it the superego) and acts as an internal and often unconscious conscience that influences moral values.

In Search after Truth (; publ. 1701) he says "conscience or internal testimony" (conscientiâ, vel interno testimonio).

During the Spanish Civil War an episode occurred that seemed so barbaric, even by the already ruthless standards of that horrific internal conflict, that the conscience of the world was briefly (ever so briefly) aroused.

"The conscience becomes the internal gyroscope.