Shortchanging these efforts would increase the suffering and chaos of our world, undercut our long-term security and dull the conscience of our country.
On this day, he was in a kind of enhanced version of statesmanlike: he spoke more peppily than usual, and he used a teleprompter, but his face was like a block and his rhetoric was full of village-elder words like "discipline," "conscience," "decency," "security," "responsibility," and "trust".
WASHINGTON — Warning that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has barely put a dent in his chemical weapons stockpile, President Obama's new envoy to the United Nations said on Friday that a failure to intervene in Syria would "give a green light to outrages that will threaten our security and haunt our conscience" for decades to come.
The next day, Sept. 6, after Mr. Obama had decided to seek authorization in Congress for a military strike, she argued in a speech at the Center for American Progress in Washington that failure to act would "give a green light to outrages that will threaten our security and haunt our conscience".
If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.
Our national security - and our national conscience - demand nothing less.
The C.I.A.'s actions convulsed the national-security community, leading to a crisis of conscience inside the top ranks of the U.S. government.
By David Remnick October 28, 2012 It's not often that spy masters and security chiefs represent the democratic impulse and the conscience of a nation adrift.
It's not often that spy masters and security chiefs represent the democratic impulse and the conscience of a nation adrift.
"One of the tragedies of the last decade is that the security fears and pressures have dulled the Israeli conscience," said Yossi Klein Halevi, an author and fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute here.
