Conscience Quotes - page 2

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. (Leo Tolstoy)
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Let it, then, be henceforth proclaimed to the world, that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. View quote
John Tyler
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience. View quote
Blaise Pascal
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast. View quote
Georg Büchner
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy... (Georges Rouault)
Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others. View quote
Henry Taylor
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. View quote
Henry James
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. View quote
Aleister Crowley
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests, that the United States is, or should or could be the global gendarme. View quote
Robert McNamara
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. View quote
Octavia Butler
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A satellite has no conscience. (Edward R. Murrow)
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. View quote
William Congreve
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. View quote
Helen Rowland
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
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