quotes about Conscience
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A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.
-- Adrian Rogers -
My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.
-- Alannah Myles -
Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
-- Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin -
FEAR only one person that is GOD. LISTEN to only one voice that is your CONSCIENCE
-- Amit Abraham -
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
-- Anita Hill -
Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
-- Anne Hutchinson -
It's very rarely a good career move to have a conscience.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.
-- Aristophanes -
History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.
-- Arthur Koestler -
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Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.
-- Ayaan Hirsi AliSource : Speech on Freedom of Expression at the European Parliament, February 14, 2008.
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Live with honor and follow your conscience.
-- Benigno Aquino, Jr. -
Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
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I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean.
-- Bidzina Ivanishvili -
[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience . He was killed for it.
-- Bill Moyers -
Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.
-- Billy Graham -
There's so few people in this town with a conscience.
-- Blake Edwards -
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Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.
-- Buchi EmechetaSource : Buchi Emecheta (1994). “The Joys of Motherhood”, p.165, Heinemann
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Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.
-- Budd SchulbergSource : "Fictional character: Terry Malloy". "On the Waterfront", www.imdb.com. 1954.
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Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.
-- C. S. Lewis -
We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
-- Carl von Ossietzky -
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Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
-- Caspar Weinberger -
I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities.
-- Cathy Guisewite -
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
-- Charles Kuralt -
Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.
-- Charles Simmons -
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To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
-- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor -
I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.
-- Chen Guangcheng -
Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing.
-- Corinne MaierSource : Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.33, Vintage
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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
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You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?
-- Diana Gabaldon -
Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.
-- Dietrich von HildebrandSource : Dietrich von Hildebrand, John Henry Crosby (2014). “My Battle Against Hitler: Defiance in the Shadow of the Third Reich”, p.12, Image
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When Garri Kasparov wrestles with his conscience, he always wins. It's what he's best at.
-- Dominic Lawson -
Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.
-- Dorotheus of Gaza -
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Conscience is its own readiest accuser.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
-- Ernest GainesSource : Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.15, Serpent's Tail
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The American conscience died with the Kennedys.
-- Frank Miller -
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Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.
-- Franklin P. Adams -
My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty ..
-- Franz StanglSource : "The Bormann Brotherhood". P. 182. Book by William Stevenson, 1973.
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No infallible oracle out of the breast.
-- Frederic Henry HedgeSource : Frederic Henry Hedge (1866). “Reason in Religion”, p.205
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Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.
-- George Eliot -
Corruption is simply crime without conscience.
-- George Richard Marek -
One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
-- Geraldine JewsburySource : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1892). “Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle”
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Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.
-- Henry Clay Trumbull -
The Superego, in censoring the unconscious and in implanting conscience, also censors the censor.
-- Herbert Marcuse -
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
-- Howard Schultz -
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
-- Irving LaytonSource : Irving Layton (1969). “The whole bloody bird: obs, aphs & pomes”
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The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.
-- James Freeman Clarke -
Conscience is the root of all true courage.
-- James Freeman ClarkeSource : James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”
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How awful is that hour when con, science stings.
-- James Gates PercivalSource : James Gates Percival (1823). “Poems”, p.72
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Evil societies always kill their consciences.
-- James L. Farmer, Jr. -
Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.
-- James M. KouzesSource : James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (2003). “The Jossey-Bass Academic Administrator's Guide to Exemplary Leadership”, p.10, John Wiley & Sons
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The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
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My favorite activity is conscience dreaming.
-- Jared Lee Loughner -
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I don't fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death
-- Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale -
Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience,
-- Jay Paterno -
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
-- Jean de la Bruyere -
Reason deceives us; conscience, never.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
-- Jim CarrollSource : Jim Carroll (1998). “Void of course: poems 1994-1997”, Penguin Group USA
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The conscience is more wise than science.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
That, if the Gentiles, (whom no Law inspir'd,) By Nature did what was by Law requir'd; They, who the written Rule and never known, Were to themselves both Rule and Law alone: To Natures plain Indictment they shall plead; And, by their Conscience, be condemn'd or freed.
-- John Dryden -
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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
-- John Greenleaf Whittier -
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
-- John Milton -
We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.
-- John Mortimer -
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To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything.
-- Jose Rizal -
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
-- Joseph CookSource : Joseph Cook (1887). “Conscience: With Preludes on Current Events”
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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
-- Joseph Cook -
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Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.
-- Jules Simon -
Conscience: that quiet voice which whispers that someone is watching.
-- Julian Tuwim -
Blushing, palpitations, a bad conscience--this is what you get if you haven't sinned.
-- Karl Kraus -
... conscienceless efficiency is no match for efficiency quickened by conscience.
-- Kelly MillerSource : Kelly Miller (1924). “The Everlasting Stain”
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The conscience of human never allows us to be quited with the unjustice.
-- Khem Veasna -
Television has a conscience. It is how we disseminate our value system.
-- Lauren Zalaznick -
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
-- Leon Blum -
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A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
-- Leonard Ravenhill -
It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time.
-- Louis SimpsonSource : Louis Simpson (2003). “The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, 1940-2001”, p.191, BOA Editions, Ltd.
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Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.
-- Louise PennySource : Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.281, Macmillan
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Sin begins in thought, which is the intimation of conscience. So, if the conscience holds sin, then its thoughts shall be evil.
-- Mahmoud Mohammed Taha -
The great theatre for virtue is conscience.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.
-- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington -
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On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.
-- Maria MonkSource : Maria Monk, Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (1851). “Awful disclosures”, p.41
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You can't have a conscience in the pimp game.
-- Mark Wahlberg -
One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.
-- Martha Stout -
I am the conscience of the 21st Century.
-- Martin FirrellSource : International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.
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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.
-- Martin FirrellSource : "Art in a Word". Documentary by Vera Baghiroli, QOOB TV, July 22, 2008.
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My conscience is captive to the Word of God
-- Martin Luther -
We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
-- Mary Augusta Ward -