One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think … — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years. — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honor. — Bilal Zahoor Copy Share Image
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation: To this point I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The shortest way to arrive at glory should be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. And the virtue… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension… — Elisee Reclus 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
“Love is too young to know what conscience is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they… — Omar El Akkad Copy Share Image
In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
You might get rid of the Bishop and get to the local Ku Klux Klan leader. That, on the whole, has been… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important .… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone.… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back.” — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
In certain pious people I have found a hatred of reason, and have been favourably disposed to them for it: their bad… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
You cannot cave in saying something that is against your conscience and belief. That self-righteous ego is a must for any self-respecting,… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“The purpose of a conscientious soul is to bring the truth into action, not to speak about it without thinking about the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a… — Taylor Sheridan 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
Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity. — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
“the law cannot respect the conscience of flesh-and-blood human beings unless it also recognizes conscience claims brought by the corporations they form.” — John Corvino Copy Share Image
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image