Conscience Quotes

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...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever;… — Lionel Shriver
I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness,… — Elwyn Brooks White
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer.… — Anne Rice
It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge. — Bob Marley
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "Theyâ€™re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and… — Frank Herbert
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing… — Daniil Kharms
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience. — Martin Luther
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification — William Blake
It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us… — Jon Katz
The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely… — Jon Katz
Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do. — Joyce Meyer
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is… — George Bernard Shaw
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones… — Jean Ferris
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes… — Martin Luther
The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I… — Anne Rice

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