Sentence examples for mind and conscience from inspiring English sources

Aside from the interestingly enigmatic hero, the publisher of the crime mag is the only character with a fully developed mind and conscience, and when he's murdered we cheer Loogan's loyal efforts to find his killer.

On a January day in Paris, in 1895, a ceremony was enacted in the courtyard of the École Militaire, on the Champ-de-Mars, that still shocks the mind and conscience to contemplate: Alfred Dreyfus, a young Jewish artillery officer and family man, convicted of treason days earlier in a rushed court-martial, was publicly degraded before a gawking crowd.

If we assume, for example, that every child of Muslim parents is one more vote for Sharia law, then we betray one of the non-negotiable principles which Sacks rightly says underpins our society – that of the belief in the innate dignity of the human person, and the freedom of mind and conscience.

In my mind and conscience, it was a possible, permissible act of liberation from whatever humiliating bondage on earth could no longer be borne with self-respect, and our talk ended with the mutual declaration that if either of us ever killed ourself, the other was not to grieve but to remember that liberty could be as important in the act of dying as in the acts of living.

Like are they of one mind and conscience?

In 1657 he was formally offered the title of King, but after an "agony of mind and conscience" turned it down.

"The party is the mind, honor and conscience of our epoch" wrote Vladimir Lenin in his work Political Blackmail (1917) In 2015, on her Facebook, Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova wrote about the artist Petr Pavlensky in aphoristic style of Lenin, "Pavlensky is the mind, honor and the balls of our epoch".

It plays on the minds and consciences of men.

] is brilliant -- fascinating, personal, frank and a very direct plea (as nearly all his articles are) to our minds and consciences as New Yorkers to turn our backs on safety and mediocrity in architecture.

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".

But he insists that "the erosion of religious authority in Europe...created a European moral-cultural environment in which politics were no longer bound and constrained by a higher authority operative in the minds and consciences of leaders and populations".It's true, of course, that in different circumstances religion can either restrain the urge to fight or exacerbate it.