Conscience Quotes

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There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience. — Simone de Beauvoir
One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience,… — Tariq Ramadan
It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of… — John Paul Stevens
There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience… — Mahatma Gandhi
Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to… — Timothy Pickering
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience. — Richard Baxter
It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the… — Richard Baxter
It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been… — Joseph Alleine
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet… — Samuel Rutherford
I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of… — Zbigniew Herbert
But no man has a monopoly of conscience. — Mary Augusta Ward
I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far… — Pol Pot
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many. — Aung San Suu Kyi
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor… — Fernando Pessoa
I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. — Fernando Pessoa
Dignity is the reward of holding oneself accountable to conscience. — Wes Fesler
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law. — Nelson Mandela
Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the… — Arthur James Moore
Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket. — Ambrose Bierce
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted… — Henri Frederic Amiel

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