Sentence examples for private conscience from inspiring English sources

On television, lawyers are capable of exercising moral judgment and have a private conscience.

His ambivalent character is a vehicle for the novel's central tension -- between private conscience and public display.

But we are asking about it because even votes of private conscience, when they are by the minister for women, are a legitimate matter for scrutiny.

In classical antiquity debate about ethics was a philosophical matter; almost all ancient religions were mainly concerned with public ritual, not private conscience.

That would be a drama about the ever-present tension between public order and private conscience, about the rights -- and wrongs -- of civil disobedience.

Religion was largely a matter of private conscience, not that blunt and noisy instrument in the public sphere it subsequently (once more) became.

His defense of the private, individual conscience against the expediency of the majority found expression in his most famous essay, "Civil Disobedience," which was first published in May 1849 under the title "Resistance to Civil Government".

In the meantime, as a modest proposal, I suggest that those few rank-and-file Catholics who do not agree with the Obama administration's new rule simply act from their own private consciences, and not avail themselves of this important health offering.

Durkheim's first key move in analysing moral life was to locate it not in the private inner conscience of the superego, but in collective life.

I want Britain to be a genuinely secular nation, where religious belief is protected and defended as a private matter of conscience.

All of these were private acts of conscience and compassion by an extraordinary prince of the Church who has always been a priest first.