Conscience Quotes
1795 quotes by 1129 authors
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The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its details, whatever gaps,…
— Victor Hugo
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Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.
— Robert Breault
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There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent…
— Mark Twain
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It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of…
— Yasmina Khadra
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I wish our country could be a free and happy one. Every citizen need not go against their conscience and can find their own place…
— Xu Zhiyong
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In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle,…
— Guillaume Faye
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Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.
— Harry Belafonte
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Abortion is black genocide...What happens to the mind of a person and the moral fabric of a nation that accepts the aborting of the life…
— Jesse Jackson
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I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those things you think…
— William Holden
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Villains with a conscience have this sad realization of who they are, and the monster they've become — there's a sense of regret. So at…
— Thomas Haden Church
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A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not…
— Marlene Dietrich
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We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his…
— Dennis Quaid
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The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating…
— Aldous Huxley
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Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill…
— Ben Stein
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He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice, whose fierce protection of individual…
— Judy Woodruff
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I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right…
— Wentworth Miller
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Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken…
— Adolf Hitler
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Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who…
— Gary Yourofsky
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Karate-do strives internally to train the mind to develop a clear conscience, enabling one to face the world honestly, while externally developing strength to the…
— Gichin Funakoshi
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