Best Consciences Sayings

113 Consciences quotes by 101 unique authors

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
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
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
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
People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. — Barbara Deming
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. — Roger Williams
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
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
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
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
Evil societies always kill their consciences. — James L. Farmer, Jr.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. — Samuel Johnson
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. — Kenneth Kaunda
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
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
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
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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