“My conscience holds with the majority, which makes me know it does not speak false. “Against Henry’s kingdom, I have all the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my… — James Otis Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln had a deep realism; he did not deceive or mislead himself, but faced the world he had to deal with… — William Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The central trait of sociopathy is a complete lack of conscience, which is very difficult for most people to get their heads… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
The conscience...is not infallible. Nor is it a source of revelation about right and wrong. Its role is not to teach you… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is quite certain that, if from childhood men were to begin to follow the first intimations of conscience, honestly to obey… — John Campbell Shairp Copy Share Image
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living being who has not done it. It may even… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A woman may walk around naked in front of a man, but a civilized man would never jump over her, driven by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm,… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“To admit that some people literally have no conscience is not technically the same as saying that some human beings are evil,… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Some lessons take years to learn, with repeated exposure to the same path sometimes shadowed by the inner conscience of own souls.… — Matthew Underwood Copy Share Image
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of… — Blanche Lincoln Copy Share Image
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
A guilty conscience never feels secure. The feeling of Guilt that overwhelmes you is the nerve of sorrow that will never let… — Kev Moores Copy Share Image
I do think that the badmouthing and alienating of a child from a parent is one of the few unforgivable sins. I… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even… — Leopold Hartley Grindon Copy Share Image
Conscience is to the soul what pain is to the body. We would like to avoid pain as much as possible, but… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“TRUTH Whenever you stand up For your conscience, Be prepared to be hated By the wicked. But never, ever, Let that scare… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought,… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
The struggle for world domination is between me and the Jews. All else is meaningless. The Jews have inflicted two wounds on… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term… — Eskinder Nega Copy Share Image
