Conscience Quotes
1795 quotes by 1129 authors
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Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England.
— Mary, Queen of Scots
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I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could,…
— Oskar Schindler
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I am the conscience of all those who knew something - but did nothing.
— Oskar Schindler
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I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term ‘hero’ irritates me greatly…
— Irena Sendler
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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
— Rose Macaulay
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We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes…
— Traudl Junge
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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that…
— Wilkie Collins
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A satellite has no conscience.
— Edward R. Murrow
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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand - they only. Know this at last.
— Charlotte Bronte
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When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
— Henry Waxman
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A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one…
— Erving Goffman
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I cannot, and will not, vote for Senator John McCain, as a matter of conscience,
— James Dobson
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If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
— J I Packer
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It is not for us to imagine that we can prove the truth of Christianity by our own arguments; nobody can prove the truth of…
— J I Packer
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The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was…
— John Bunyan
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The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. On, on, on for ever, without…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
— J C Ryle
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