Conscience Quote by Joan Robinson

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

— Charles Kuralt

We are a country with a conscience.

— John McCain

There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

— Robert Breault

“A conscience is a self-reproaching program that is installed in us, not by nature, but by our culture.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found…

— Thomas Jefferson

Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our…

— Ronald Reagan

Conscience serves us especially to judge of the actions of others.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

You have to have people who prick the consciences of the nation.

— Coretta Scott King

Well I've already made it clear that it's a matter for individuals in exercising their own judgement, their own consciences to speak freely on…

— Ron Davies

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

— William Sloane Coffin

“Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.”

— Joe Abercrombie