Conscience Quotes

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Conscience is God present in man. — Victor Hugo
The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to… — Daisaku Ikeda
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty. — William Ralph Inge
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience. — Jesse Jackson
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You… — Henry James
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good… — Thomas Jefferson
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may,… — Thomas Jefferson
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite… — Jerome K. Jerome
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. — Samuel Johnson
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in… — Barbara Jordan
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something… — Carl Jung
I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to… — Elena Kagan
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. — Kenneth Kaunda
When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it. — Jack Kevorkian
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies.… — Alveda King
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. — Karl Kraus
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched. — Charles Kuralt

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