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His Conscience Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
- 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],…
More His Conscience Quotes
- Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in… — Thomas Aquinas
- There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. — B. C. Forbes
- In this oasis of quiet, before the wonderful spectacle of nature, one easily experiences how profitable silence is, a good that today… — Pope John Paul II
- He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward… — John Greenleaf Whittier
- To assert that it is possible to establish peace between men of different nations is simply to assert that man, whatever his… — Leon Bourgeois
- You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And… — Joseph Conrad
- It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it… — Mark Twain