Conscience Quotes
1795 quotes by 1129 authors
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I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to…
— John C. Calhoun
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I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You…
— Tim McGraw
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I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to…
— Laurie Notaro
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Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more…
— Herbert Hoover
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New York is the city of privilege. Here is the seat of the Invisible Power represented by the allied forces of finance and industry. This…
— William Jennings Bryan
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My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
— Clarke Peters
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Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
— Edward Snowden
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Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace with our conscience.…
— Glenn R. Schiraldi
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It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that…
— Benjamin Spock
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Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing…
— Jacques Lacan
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I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
— Criss Jami
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
— William Rounseville Alger
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Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no…
— Vance Havner
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The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of…
— Criss Jami
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A good book is a lighthouse; a wise man is a lighthouse; conscience is a lighthouse; compassion is a lighthouse; science is a lighthouse! They…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse,…
— Ed Markey
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There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that…
— Joe Wright
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