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Conscience Quotes by Mark Twain
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing…
- It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent…
- When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are…
- But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just…
- A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
- Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
- In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.
- As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not…
- An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
- No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and…
- when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort…
- A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience.
- We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter…
- The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,…
- Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no…
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
- 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
- It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock
- 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