Conscience Quotes

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It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. — John Stuart Mill
I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience. — Ernest Gaines
With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the colour of blood… — Jose Saramago
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself. — D. H. Lawrence
Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul. — Peter Kreeft
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities. — Naguib Mahfouz
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream. — William Faulkner
The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences. — Alan Moore
Don't judge a man's conscience by looking at his face cause he may have a bad heart. — William Shakespeare
She quoted a dead playwright and called me a bullet with nothing but a future. She understood my lack of self-pity. She knew why I… — James Ellroy
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if… — Theodore Roosevelt
Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,… — Leonard Cohen
What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by… — Amitav Ghosh
Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Even true believers had consciences, Too bad. — Tom Clancy
But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In children, in good… — Louise Penny
The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone.… — Diana Gabaldon

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