Conscience Quotes

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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of… — Lajos Kossuth
A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God. — Peter Ustinov
The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom. — Michel de Montaigne
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. — Michel de Montaigne
Policy sits above conscience. — William Shakespeare
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth. — Mark Twain
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion. — Charles Lamb
When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs… — Hubert H. Humphrey
History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience. — Arthur Koestler
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind. — Arthur Koestler
A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more… — Carl Jung
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. — Abraham Lincoln
Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a… — Seneca the Younger
Even when there is no law, there is conscience. — Publilius Syrus
Tradition and conscience are the two wings given to the human soul to reach the truth. — Giuseppe Mazzini
Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would… — C. E. M. Joad
We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse… — Benjamin Franklin
I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as… — Albert Einstein
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have… — Samuel Johnson

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