“the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order.”
Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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“Why does my action strike them as so horrible? Is it because it was a crime? What is meant by crime? My conscience is at rest. Of course, it was a legal crime, of course, the letter of the law was broken and blood was shed. Well, punish me for the letter of the law...and that's enough.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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