Conscience Quotes

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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I got on the airplane in Indonesia coming to Japan, my intentions was to turn myself in to the military for the simple reason… — Robert Jenkins
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in… — James Larkin
I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. — Jonathan Miller
It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's… — Thabo Mbeki
The president said, 'You've got to vote your conscience. — Scott McClellan
We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep. — Carl Von Ossietzky
No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the… — Jim Wallis
Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have… — Malcolm Wallop
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind. — George A Smith
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes — Chinese Proverbs
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. — Oscar Wilde
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. — Henry Louis Mencken
Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. — Chinese Proverbs
Conscience... is the impulse to do right because it is right, regardless of personal ends. — Margaret C Graham
It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all. — Oscar Wilde
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience — French Proverb
Conscience is the internal perception of the reaction of a particular wish operating within us — Sigmund Freud
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life — Norman Cousins

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