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Conscience Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
- Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.
- Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted…
- The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If…
- Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God,…
More Conscience Quotes
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard
- I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia Butler
- Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins
- The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler