His Conscience Quotes
63 quotes by 51 authors
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A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.
— Melvin Laird
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No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend…
— Joseph Story
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A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.
— Friedrich Schiller
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The only guide to man is his conscience.
— Winston Churchill
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The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
— Erich Fromm
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But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?
— Muhammad Asad
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
— Joseph Conrad
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PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who [was] not permitted to sing psalms through his nose [in Europe],…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion.…
— John Stuart Mill
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Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his…
— Suzy Kassem
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To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his…
— C.S. Lewis
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By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his…
— Euripides
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Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
— Thomas a Kempis
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He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since…
— Pio of Pietrelcina
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And, sir, when we think of eternity, and of the future consequences of all human conduct, what is there in this life that should make…
— William Wilberforce
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I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of…
— Will Rogers
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The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is…
— Joseph Conrad
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Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
— Michel de Montaigne
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