Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The pleasure of revenge is a fleeting emotion that is soon replaced by the affliction of conscience. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it… — George Santayana 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
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience… — Isaiah Bowman Copy Share Image
You can't make people like you under the best of circumstances, and you certainly can't make them like you while you're actively… — Carolyn Hax Copy Share Image
We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
We now face the prospect of a kind of global civil war between those who refuse to consider the consequences of civilization's… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
