A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The truth is, a person's memory has no more sense that his conscience, and no appreciation whatever of values and proportions.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“it don’t make no diference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and… — Mark Twain Copy Share
You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly… — Mark Twain Copy Share
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share
![“Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...]…” quote by Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/17d/mark-twain-22_boys_then-at-once-they-reached-and-hovered-up_244845.png)
