Conscience Quotes
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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.
Martin Luther -
One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
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The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.
William Shakespeare -
Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
Bono U2 -
Conscience is a Jewish invention.
Adolf Hitler -
The fact that human conscience remains partially infantile throughout life is the core of human tragedy.
Erik Erikson -
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Isaiah Berlin -
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing
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I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place by their virtue and talents; a simple and happy society, where the goodness of humanity is expanded to the maximum, and the evilness of humanity is constrained to the maximum; honesty, trust, kindness, and helping each other are everyday occurrences in life; there is not so much anger and anxiety, a pure smile on everyone’s face.
Xu Zhiyong -
Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin -
Public opinion is a second conscience.
William R. Alger -
We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.
Blaise Pascal -
We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.
William McKinley -
Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.
Allison DuBois
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What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
Hannah Arendt -
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare -
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification.
William Blake -
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare -
Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Humanity’s moral conscience progresses, slowly yet surely…
Cheikh Anta Diop
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself.
Miguel de Cervantes -
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes