Their Consciences Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how… — Wystan Hugh Auden
In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing… — Richard Sibbes
Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so. — Robert H. Jackson
There is a way by which persons can keep their consciences clear before God and man, and that is to preserve within them the spirit… — Lorenzo Snow
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare… — Charles Grandison Finney
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which… — George Mason
The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they… — Fulton J. Sheen
The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men. — Thomas a Kempis
I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. — Mo Yan
When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness, their watchmen would… — James W. Sire
People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. — Barbara Deming
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.
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
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
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's… — Leo Tolstoy
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. — John Stuart Mill
Good girls hold their heads high by daylight, Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites, While bad girls slink along in their shame- Everyone… — Anna Godbersen

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