Conscience Quotes

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The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences. — John Hockenberry
The idea of Macbeth as a conscience-torm ented man is a platitude as false as Macbeth himself. Macbeth has no conscience. His main concern throughout… — Mary McCarthy
We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol. — John Mortimer
My conscience is captive to the Word of God — Martin Luther
I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food… — John Robbins
Racism is a blight on the human conscience — Nelson Mandela
It is curious to note that when for reasons of conscience, people refuse to kill, they are often exempted from active military duty. But there… — Karl Hess
A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course. — Richard Baxter
When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory… — George MacDonald
Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts. — Alistair Begg
Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King… — Barbara Tuchman
It's a rare human being who understands intellectually and emotionally the freedoms contained within our Constitution and the right of every human being to make… — Geoffrey Fieger
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. — Salvatore Quasimodo
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience. — Wilhelm Frick
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence it would be to doubt everything. — Jose Rizal
The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong. — Anne Frank
The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to compare them with the truth… — Pope Benedict XVI
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience… — Arthur Koestler
I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing… — James Cameron

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