My Conscience Quotes
107 quotes by 96 authors
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
— Octavia Butler
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My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
— Charles Stubbs
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My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.
— John McCain
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God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the…
— John D. Rockefeller
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They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight…
— Malcolm X
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When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that…
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
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No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own -…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A Christian anarchist has no business belonging to such a reactionary organization [the Catholic Church]. I do not believe in original sin, indulgences, the infallibility…
— Ammon Hennacy
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I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience…
— Pol Pot
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Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience…
— Martin Luther
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Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who…
— Gary Yourofsky
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I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.
— Anita Hill
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As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the…
— Vaclav Havel
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I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far…
— Pol Pot
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Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.
— Isaac Watts
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There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach…
— Agatha Christie
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I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what…
— Nelson Mandela
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I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have five million human beings on my conscience is for me a source…
— Adolf Eichmann
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After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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