Conscience Quotes

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It's always fun to play the innocent, no matter what you're doing. If you feel like you're doing the right thing, you can get away… — Portia de Rossi
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. — Michel Foucault
Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent… — Pope Francis
First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and… — Pope Francis
Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas… — Pope Francis
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them… — Anne Frank
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. — Benjamin Franklin
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts. — Mahatma Gandhi
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. — Mahatma Gandhi
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. — Mahatma Gandhi
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. — William E. Gladstone
Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind. — William Godwin
Conscience is a man's compass. — Vincent Van Gogh
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he… — Amy Grant
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. — Oliver Goldsmith
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct. — Edwin Louis Cole
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at… — William Congreve
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is… — Joseph Conrad
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose,… — Stephen Covey
It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement.… — Davy Crockett

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