Best Consciences Sayings
113 Consciences quotes by 101 unique authors
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I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.
— James Ussher
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And if you love the light, then you come to the light to be proved, and tried whether your works be wrought in God. But…
— Margaret Fell
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The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by…
— William Penn
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The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts…
— Martin Luther
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People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if…
— C.S. Lewis
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A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more…
— Carl Jung
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Inside the polling booth every American man and woman stands as the equal of every other American man and woman. There they have no superiors.…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for…
— Alfred de Vigny
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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of…
— Isaac Barrow
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Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing…
— Jacques Lacan
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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
— Barbara Deming
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Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
— Roger Williams
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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we…
— Walter J Chantry
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Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Evil societies always kill their consciences.
— James L. Farmer, Jr.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
— Samuel Johnson
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The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
— Kenneth Kaunda
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Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies.…
— Alveda King
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
— Robert E. Lee
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what…
— Abbe Pierre
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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