Conscience Quotes

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Conscience, the power of conscience, can unearth all kinds of things. — Ridley Scott
Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones
I have always lived according to my conscience, and my past is clean. — Bidzina Ivanishvili
Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are… — Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil. — Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience… — Charles Platt
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme. — Robert McNamara
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. — Izaak Walton
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. — George Bancroft
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. — Sophocles
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. — James Freeman Clarke
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. — Ogden Nash
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good… — Jeremy Taylor
We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil. — Claus von Stauffenberg
Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on. — Budd Schulberg
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from… — John Acton
Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone. — John Oldham
The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by… — Charles Munch
Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore. — Bernard Cornwell

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