Conscience Quotes

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Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to the scholar, education… — Stephen Covey
My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion… — Blanche Lincoln
A guilty conscience means at least you have one. — Jakob Dylan
Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life,… — Donald Watson
You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the… — Mario Savio
We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven. — Margherita Hack
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless;… — Josef Pieper
We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. — Carl von Ossietzky
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were… — Franz von Papen
One desire has been the ruling passion of my life. One high motive has acted like a spur upon my mind and soul. and sooner… — Abraham Kuyper
The Jews are the conscience of the world. They are the father figures, stern, critical, and forbidding. — Raul Hilberg
My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty .. — Franz Stangl
We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation. — Peter Akinola
What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The value of a… — John Cowper Powys
A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents. — Melvin Laird
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for… — Rufus Choate
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so… — Stanley Milgram
Do not be content with the old anointing. It is essential to a more holy and happy life...that you seek to be anointed with new… — Octavius Winslow
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. — Barbara Deming
What manner of mind considers this holy estate [pregnancy] which women are privileged by the Almighty to attain as a slur upon the social conscience? — Grantly Dick-Read

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