Mr. GERSON: This is, you know, one of those places in the world where the conscience of the world is tested and engaged and where failure would have a harsh historical judgment.
Separately, in Darfur, the deaths of hundreds of thousands shocked the conscience of the world.
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"The current humanitarian crisis in the North Kivu province is a scar on the conscience of the world, " he said.
For a long time to come, some parts of the continent will continue to make legitimate demands on the conscience of the rich world.
S. Hodgson, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, 3 vols. (1974).
The rock stars of the green millennium can buy their environmental indulgences so they can gorge good conscience on their carbon-rich world of private jets and lush estates.
But when Peter Bakker, the CEO of European logistics company TNT, decided he wanted to do something to tackle world hunger, he quickly discovered that having a social conscience had business benefits of its own.
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Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people.
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Mr. West took to Twitter to suggest the rich need more of a social conscience: "There are so many billionaires in the world that can come together to redesign it, " he told his followers.
His company is a combination of 200-year-old Schweppes and 150-year-old Cadbury, imbued with the strong social conscience of the Quaker Cadburys and owner of some of Britain's (and the world's) best-known food-and-drink brands.
The world's richest nation, one that presumes to great moral authority, cannot simply make worthy appeals to conscience and call on others to carry the burden.
But critics feel that there is a danger that by setting up a stall in the local Waitrose, Fairtrade is simply preaching to the converted who assuages their collective middle class conscience by paying slightly more for a product in the belief that they are helping people in the developing world.
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