Conscience Quotes

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When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and think… — Paul K. Chappell
When something weighs on your conscience, give it up. — Muhammad
There are five signs of righteousness: a gentle disposition and a soft heart, shedding tears of regret, ascetism and not caring about the world, being… — Shaqiq al-Balkhi
Treat your date with the respect and purity you hope your future spouse will have. Keep in mind how you will expect a young man… — Jason Evert
It is subversive to set up inquisitions like this, state or national, into the thoughts and consciences of Americans. . . . It is subversive… — Florence Luscomb
Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition. — J. Budziszewski
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly… — Isaac Watts
Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for… — John Tyler
The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent… — John Tyler
It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the… — Woodrow Wilson
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which, by precept and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral Sentiments.… — Arianna Huffington
Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man… — H. L. Mencken
The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows… — Gerry Spence
A man asked Muhammad what was the mark whereby he might know the reality of his faith. Muhammad said, 'If thou derive pleasure from the… — Muhammad
Faith is the framework for living. It gives us the spirit and heart that affects everything we do. If gives us hope each day. Faith… — George W. Bush
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before… — George Eliot
We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong… — Plutarco Elias Calles

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