Conscience Quotes
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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles -
The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte -
By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.
Edward T. Hall -
A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
Douglas Jerrold -
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
Albert Einstein -
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
Thomas Aquinas -
Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
Lord Byron -
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.
Euripides -
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.
Margaret Cavendish -
What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
Vernon Howard
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Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
Immanuel Kant -
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is unconditional and inexorable. ... The lowly Nazarene taught us the doctrine of non-resistance, and so convinced was he of the soundness of that doctrine that he sealed his belief with death on the cross. ... When human law conflicts with Divine law, my duty is clear. Conscience, my infallible guide, impels me to tell you that prison, death, or both, are infinitely preferable to joining any branch of the Army.
Ben Salmon -
My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
William Penn -
Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.
Katharina Zell
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Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Oscar Wilde -
The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.
Olympia Snowe -
You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively badgering them on what you perceive to be their failures of conscience.
Carolyn Hax -
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.