Conscience Quotes
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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
Anna Hutchison
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The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
Martin Luther
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
Immanuel Kant
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There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi
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There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Stokely Carmichael
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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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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
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I am liberating man from the degrading chimera known as `conscience'.
Adolf Hitler
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My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.
William Penn
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More and more it seems to me that the philosopher, being of necessity a man of tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, has always found himself, and had to find himself, in contradiction to his today: his enemy was ever the ideal of today. So far all these extraordinary furtherers of men whom one calls philosophers, though they themselves have rarely felt like friends of wisdom but rather like disagreeable fools and dangerous question marks, have found their task, their hard, unwanted, inescapable task, but eventually also the greatness of their task, in being the bad conscience of their time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.
Eva Hoffman
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
Oscar Wilde
