Conscience Quotes
1795 quotes by 1129 authors
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Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis. The one who has day dream are aware…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
— Ronald Reagan
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Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect…
— Carl Jung
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In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external…
— Pope John Paul II
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy; they need justice.
— Isabel Allende
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In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the…
— Thomas S. Monson
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To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster…
— John Steinbeck
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All I have to do is keep my spirit, feelings and conscience like a sheet of blank paper, and let the Spirit and power of…
— Brigham Young
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is indeed a certain sense of gratification when we do a good deed that gives us inward satisfaction, and a generous pride that accompanies…
— Michel de Montaigne
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There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
— Oscar Wilde
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Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not…
— Dalai Lama
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It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of…
— Anne Lamott
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
— Victor Hugo
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Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than…
— Gaston Leroux
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All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or…
— Rick Riordan
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A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
— Khaled Hosseini
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My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed…
— Upton Sinclair
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Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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