Conscience Quotes

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The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. — Fisher Ames
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. — Mary McCarthy
It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American… — Richard M. Nixon
Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is… — Alois Podhajsky
When you study the lives of all great achievers-those who have had the greatest influence on others, those who have made things happen-you will find… — Stephen Covey
To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of… — Paramahansa Yogananda
He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And… — John Greenleaf Whittier
To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his ethnical background, his… — Leon Bourgeois
There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second… — John Quincy Adams
Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on… — Albert Einstein
Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the… — Ronald Reagan
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter… — Alexander Cockburn
Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all… — Joseph Conrad
The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience. — Edward Gibbon
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside;… — John Updike
The struggle for world domination is between me and the Jews. All else is meaningless. The Jews have inflicted two wounds on the world: Circumcision… — Adolf Hitler
The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision... — Adolf Hitler
We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary… — Thomas Jefferson

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