Conscience Quotes

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No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil… — Thomas Jefferson
If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for… — Leo Tolstoy
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience… — Pol Pot
You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in… — Elizabeth Bibesco
The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be… — Gaylord Nelson
My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right? — Dexter Scott King
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is… — Anthony Kennedy
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience… — Martin Luther
Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon… — Matthew Henry
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing… — Richard Sibbes
Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. — Logan Pearsall Smith
Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. — Bert Murray
A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house. — Montague Burton
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty… — Eric Hoffer
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping. — Izaak Walton
Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting… — H. L. Mencken
With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this… — Pier Giorgio Frassati
Communistic evolution, according to the Senate committee that examined it, is responsible for 135 million deaths in peacetime. There's no religion that has a tiny… — D. James Kennedy
Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. — StanisÅ‚aw I LeszczyÅ„ski

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