Conscience Quotes

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C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator — Dinesh D'Souza
The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is whiteblacks knew that white blood is… — Eldridge Cleaver
The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to… — Vasily Grossman
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction… — Errico Malatesta
An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which… — Elisee Reclus
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. — John Henry Newman
Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or… — James Weldon Johnson
Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however,… — John Robbins
Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to… — Philip Schaff
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing… — Alan Keyes
A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to. — Carlo Collodi
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. — C.S. Lewis
The more people come together, the more borders will be opened and people and opinions get together, the more unrenouncable tolerance will be a fundamental… — Thomas Klestil
I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience. — Kage Baker
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall… — Pope Pius XI
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be… — James MacGregor Burns
The first condition of happiness is a clear conscience. — David O. McKay
All men who have moved the world have been men who would stand true to their conscience. — David O. McKay
Thoughts mold your features. Thoughts lift your soul heavenward or drag you toward hell. â€¦ As nothing reveals character like the company we like and… — David O. McKay

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