Conscience Quotes

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... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of… — Barack Obama
I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward… — Laura Schlessinger
I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Gospel of Life is not for believers alone: it is for everyone. The issue of life and its defense and promotion is not a… — Pope John Paul II
There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience. — Mother Teresa
But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces? — Boris Pasternak
If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control. — David Lloyd George
When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are… — Mark Twain
Irrespective of the conflict with America it is a human duty to show sympathy with the American people, and be with them at these horrifying… — Muammar al-Gaddafi
Science without conscience is the soul's perdition. — Francois Rabelais
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake… — Joost Meerloo
The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man. — Ralph Nader
There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach… — Agatha Christie
I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what… — Nelson Mandela
I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source… — Adolf Eichmann
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probableâ€”namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in… — John Donne
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the… — Pope Francis
After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer… — Pope Benedict XVI
The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy… — Saul Alinsky

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