Conscience Quotes

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No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience. — William Gurnall
When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. — Henny Youngman
The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and… — James A. Baldwin
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The sewer is the conscience of the city. — Victor Hugo
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character. — Cal Thomas
As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to… — Andrew Jackson
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t… — Charles Darwin
I fully subscribe to the judgement of those writers who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animal, the moral sense… — Charles Darwin
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,… — Charles Darwin
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. — Doug Larson
Conscience is the chamber of justice. — Origen
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor
Cheerfulness is full of significance: it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. — Charles Kingsley
You come across [online comments] about yourself and about your friends, and it's a very dehumanizing thing,It's almost like how, in war, you go through… — Gwyneth Paltrow
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and… — Leo Tolstoy
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on. — Budd Schulberg
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because… — Pope John Paul II
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising… — Russell Lynes

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