Conscience Quotes
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Good sense, good health, good conscience, and good fame,--all these belong to virtue, and all prove that virtue has a title to your love.
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A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.
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Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
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I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.
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Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe
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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.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.
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There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.
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On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.
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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
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It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
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Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
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Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.
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The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
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God leaves to our conscience the choice of the road we decide to follow, and the liberty of yielding to one or another of the opposing influences that act upon us.
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Self-understanding rather than self-condemnation is the way to inner peace and mature conscience.
