Conscience Quotes

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Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact. — Rollo May
Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being… — Fulton J. Sheen
Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action. — Henry Demarest Lloyd
Only when peace lives within each of us, will it live outside of us. We must be the wombs for a new harmony. When it… — Ming-Dao Deng
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Blessed are those who have preserved internal sanctity of soul; who are conscious of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive. — Roger Williams
It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world. — Stefan Zweig
Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily… — Eva Hoffman
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have… — Simon Wiesenthal
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience. — Kenneth Lee Pike
As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability… — Lester Bangs
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart. — Joseph Cook
Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes… — Emile Durkheim
Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy… — Liu Xiaobo
Go by your own conscience. — Steve Chabot
I have a clear conscience. — Wilhelm Canaris
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. — Barbara Deming
I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience. — Charles Edison
I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do. — Chen Guangcheng

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