Conscience Quotes

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Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God,… — Ronald Reagan
God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought,… — Henry Sloane Coffin
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage,… — George Sand
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history. — Lord Acton
The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a… — Leo Tolstoy
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires,… — Leo Tolstoy
We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter… — Mark Twain
One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Omar N. Bradley
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life. — Norman Cousins
To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts… — Barbara Deming
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. — Lillian Hellman
Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms. — John Robbins
Conservative evangelicals don't want government support for our faith, because we believe God created all consciences free and a state-coerced act of worship isn't acceptable… — Russell D. Moore
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience. — Stokely Carmichael
Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. — George Santayana
The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion… — Bertrand Russell
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything… — Thomas Paine
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,… — Mark Twain
Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou… — Benjamin Franklin

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