Conscience Quotes

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What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool! — Kurt Vonnegut
Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from… — Chris Cleave
Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man… — John Taylor Gatto
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:… — Christopher Hitchens
My conscience is killing me, isn't it? And when you're immortal that can be a really long and ignominious death — Anne Rice
This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even… — Deb Caletti
The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to appreciate… — Jeff Lindsay
Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience. — David Mitchell
When we support or vote for candidates outside the two major political parties we are immediately lectured about wasting our vote or making it easier… — Glenn Beck
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the… — Theodore Parker
Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who… — J R Ward
personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. — Antonio Tabucchi
You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon… — David Petersen
The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of… — Janet Frame
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and… — Richard Wright
It wasn't about wanting to die or having nothing left to live for; it was about letting go. You live your life doing what you're… — Kelley Armstrong
Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience. — Louise Penny
A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience. — Mark Twain
I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her.… — Kami Garcia
The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You… — E. Stanley Jones

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