Conscience Quotes
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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
August Strindberg -
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
John Searles
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What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.
Ali Sina -
The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Argus Hamilton -
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.
Subcomandante Marcos -
Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
Sigmund Freud -
I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.
Walter Model -
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
Seneca the Younger
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A man of integrity will never listen to any reason against conscience.
Alec Douglas-Home -
I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.
Cody Johnson -
Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.
William Whewell -
Our enemies are our outward consciences.
William Shakespeare -
I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
Toussaint Louverture -
God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.
Edward Thomson -
It encourages a stern and ignorant spirit of condemnation; it throws altogether out of gear the healthy movement of the conscience; it invents virtues which are sterile and cruel; it invents sins which are no sins at all, but which darken the heaven of innocent joy with futile clouds of remorse.
Edmund Gosse -
If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.
George Eliot -
The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I cannot choose but adhere to the word of God, which has possession of my conscience; nor can I possibly, nor will I even make any recantation, since it is neither safe nor honest to act contrary to conscience! Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God! Amen.
Martin Luther
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
William E. Gladstone -
In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.
William the Silent -
...When someone dies when you are young, you are naturally selfish, you over-cover it, you want to get over it quickly, get out and live. Talking about (Stuart) intensively has helped me. I felt relieved, after all these years. I had a big conscience for not mourning enough at the time."
Astrid Kirchherr