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Conscience Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
- It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
- The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
- I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable…
- What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies…
- What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
- Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral…
- No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety,…
- Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?…
More Conscience Quotes
- 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
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell… — Arthur Koestler
- A disciplined conscience is a man's best friend. It may not be his most amiable, but it is his most faithful monitor. — Austin Phelps
- Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it? — Unknown Author
- 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
- I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard