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Conscience Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
- 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,…
- We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but…
- We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
- The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors…
- I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.
- The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.
- We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case…
- The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
- The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It…
- If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.
- There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up....…
- Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, "Punish…
- Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as…
- When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes…
- An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the…
- On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the…
- There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience…
- One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you…
- I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order…
- I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to…
- 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…
- I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail in…
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 don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender… — David Attenborough
- 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
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells… — Walter Bagehot
- Modesty is the conscience of the body. — Honore de Balzac
- Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it. — Honore de Balzac
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard
- Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings,… — Ingmar Bergman
- Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. — Ambrose Bierce
- Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience… — Bono
- In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience. — Bono