Character Quote by Leo Szilard

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

— Franklin P. Adams

But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind…

— Georg Brandes

“compared to individuals, groups tend to be more dogmatic, better able to justify irrational actions, more likely to see their actions as highly moral,…

— Richard Wiseman

“When we disown parts of ourself, we tend to judge others who display those same qualities. We lay claim to moral superiority. This holding…

— Frank Ostaseski

It takes courage to have a conscience when you seem to see others getting something tangible out of not bothering to struggle with the…

— Laura Schlessinger

“Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but... groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

— P. D. James

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of…

— Christian Lous Lange

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

“People who emphasize extrinsic values show higher levels of prejudice, less concern for human rights, lower levels of behavior to protect the environment, and…

— Jonah Sachs

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

— Theodore Dalrymple

We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel…

— Timothy Keller