Conscience Quotes

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. — Irving Layton
We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be… — John F. Kennedy
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. — Charles Stubbs
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice. — Walter Savage Landor
The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being… — Steven Biko
For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and… — Frederick Douglass
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved,… — Leontyne Price
... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious… — Frances Perkins
My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it. — John McCain
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in… — Aldous Huxley
Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment… — Emile Durkheim
Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is.… — John G. Lake
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it… — Susanna Wesley
Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself… — Henry David Thoreau
Evil men, obsessed with ambition and unburdened by conscience, must be taken very seriously-and we must stop them before their crimes can multiply. — George W. Bush
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing… — Mark Twain
God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the… — John D. Rockefeller

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