Conscience Quotes · Page 71

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

— Kenneth Kaunda

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.

— Desmond Tutu

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

— Saint Augustine

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something…

— John Amery

If we cannot be powerful and happy and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.

— Elbert Hubbard

It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. .…

— Susan B. Anthony

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET…

— Suzy Kassem

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how…

— Ian Mcewan

“The worst thing about social conditioning is that it makes an individual of that society genuinely believe that he or she is…

— Abhijit Naskar

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and…

— David Draiman

I want nothing to do with politicians. Their hearts wither away, and die out of their bodies. Their consciences are turned to…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all…

— Joseph Alleine

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the…

— Herbert Hoover

Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not…

— George Washington

Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed,…

— Bob Dylan

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure…

— John Cotton

Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.

— Mary, Queen of Scots

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things…

— Lee Greenwood

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience…

— Diana Wynne Jones

There may be some tenderness in the conscience and yet the will be a very stone; and as long as the will…

— Richard Alleine

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make…

— Wentworth Miller

“Cheating is an innate evolutionarily programmed desire, especially in men, but it is not a desire that cannot be controlled.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

— William Godwin

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must…

— Bob Dylan

The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory.

— Michel de Montaigne

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.

— William J. Clinton

“...freedom of conscience does not mean being uncontrolled - we have to control ourselves and at times submit to others...”

— John Geddes

In L.A., it's very hard to have some kind of conscience of some style out there. The weather's too hot; there's no…

— Jason Statham

Our conscience illuminated by the Holy Spirit as we search the Scriptures will show us in every circumstance the right way.

— Richard Wurmbrand

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of…

— Hosea Ballou

Positive questions bring out the best in people, inspire positive action, and create possibilities for positive futures.

— Diana Whitney

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a…

— Walter Lippmann

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

— Leo Tolstoy

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part…

— Lee Maracle

God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.

— Henry David Thoreau

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed…

— Joseph Joubert

“I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.”

— Abhijit Naskar