Conscience Quotes

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The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies. — George Santayana
The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom. — Robert Browning
No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his… — Euripides
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your… — O. Henry
The chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the… — William Jennings Bryan
Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience. — Mike Royko
Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire
The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any… — Paul Gauguin
There are two kinds of liberalism. A liberalism which is always, subterraneously authoritative and paternalistic, on the side of one's good conscience. And then there… — Roland Barthes
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better. — Joseph Joubert
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its… — Susan Sontag
The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited… — Wendell Phillips
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for… — Alfred de Vigny
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties -… — Frederic Bastiat
Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of… — Isaac Barrow
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority. — Stanley Milgram
It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time. — Louis Simpson
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny… — Alfred Kazin

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