Conscience Quotes

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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. — Albert Camus
My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools. — Giacomo Casanova
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! — Dante Alighieri
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great. — William Ellery Channing
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience… — William Ellery Channing
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. — Lord Chesterfield
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing… — Frank A. Clark
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest. — Hillary Clinton
I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be… — Hillary Clinton
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. — B R Ambedkar
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid… — Michelangelo Antonioni
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that… — Thomas Aquinas
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience. — William J. Clinton
A quiet conscience makes one so serene. — Lord Byron
Prudence approaches, conscience accuses. — Immanuel Kant
It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by… — Giorgio Armani
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people… — Stephen A. Douglas

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