Consciences Quotes

113 quotes by 105 authors

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest. — Hillary Clinton
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people… — Stephen A. Douglas
The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being… — Steven Biko
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved,… — Leontyne Price
Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect. — Dominique Pire
Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain… — George Washington
It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure… — Frederic Bastiat
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of… — Robert Andrews Millikan
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing… — Richard Sibbes
Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but… — Lottie Moon
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more… — Bob Hawke
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so. — Robert H. Jackson
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit… — Lorenzo Snow
What may be the significance of so many forms of "spirituality" on this planet that are antagonistic to "life" - and Christianity at the head… — Kenny Smith
Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of… — Oscar Romero
People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. — Mary McCarthy
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of… — Yasmina Khadra
In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle,… — Guillaume Faye
It might be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of… — John Paul Stevens

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