Still, he said, "people tell me the dialogue and dark sarcasm in the play reflects the conscience of our nation".
"This book reflects the conscience of our state and the collective compassion of our citizenry," the governor said toward the end of his 45-minute talk.
Johann Sebastian Bach wrote his last great choral composition the Mass in B minor (BWV 232) to express the alternating emotions of loneliness, despair, joy and rapture that arise as conscience reflects on a departed human life.
Albert Einstein, as a self-professed adherent of humanism and rationalism, likewise viewed an enlightened religious person as one whose conscience reflects that he "has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings and aspirations to which he clings because of their super-personal value".
Stage 6 was removed as a general measure of development as this stage reflects decisions of conscience, based on self-chosen ethical principles appealing to universality and associated with moral leaders such as Gandhi and the Dali Lama.
The decision to elevate religious freedom to a matter of diplomatic priority reflects a combination of conscience and strategy.
The French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir in A Very Easy Death (Une mort très douce, 1964) reflects within her own conscience about her mother's attempts to develop such a moral sympathy and understanding of others.
He insisted on the need for continuous debate because international law was gradually emerging, and as such, reflecting the common conscience of mankind.
The Kennedy forces, behind in elected delegates, were able to change the rule to a more flexible instruction to delegates that they "shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them".
The covenant of works that is reflected in the conscience of mankind provided a basis for Cocceius' theological treatment of the broader social and political areas of life, while the gracious covenant permitted his interpretation of many Old Testament symbols as prefigurations of the New Testament Christ.
"A reasonable inference from the habituation brought about by imposing capital punishment under near rote conditions," Judge Thomas wrote, "is that a judge may be less likely to reflect the current conscience of the community and more likely to consider imposing a death penalty as just another criminal sentence".
