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Love is too young to know what conscience is.

William Shakespeare

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Quotes by William R. Alger

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Quotes by William Godwin

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Quotes by William E. Gladstone

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Quotes by William Butler Yeats

I have a clear conscience.

Quotes by Wilhelm Canaris

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.

Quotes by Wilhelm Frick

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Quotes by Walter Savage Landor

I have the kind of conscience that it doesn't feel right if I watch other people suffer and I do nothing about it.

Quotes by Vic Mensa

I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.

Quotes by Toussaint Louverture

I vote my conscience first and my constituents next, regardless of the direction of our leadership.

Quotes by Tom Graves

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Quotes by Thomas Hobbes

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Quotes by Thomas de Quincey

He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.

Quotes by Thomas a Kempis

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

Quotes by Thabo Mbeki

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Quotes by Stokely Carmichael

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Steven Wright

Go by your own conscience.

Quotes by Steve Chabot

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.

Quotes by Shirley Temple

I do my best to build a strong factual foundation for each of my novels and rely upon my author's notes to keep my conscience clear.

Quotes by Sharon Kay Penman

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.

Quotes by Saint-John Perse

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

It comforts the adult conscience to remember that, amid history's grave injustices, there were still great lives.

Quotes by Rumaan Alam

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

Quotes by Rocco Buttiglione

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Quotes by Robert South

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

Quotes by Robert Peel

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

Quotes by Robert McNamara

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Quotes by Robert Hall

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

Quotes by Robert Burns

In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.

Quotes by Robert Burns

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Quotes by Robert Burton

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.

Quotes by Pratibha Patil

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

Quotes by Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I have a very clear conscience.

Quotes by Philip Green

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

Quotes by Peter Morgan

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Quotes by Peter Akinola

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Quotes by Paul Hindemith

My career strategy has never been the most important thing; my conscience is.

Quotes by Parvathy

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

Quotes by Os Guinness

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

Quotes by Norman Rockwell

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

My conscience is clean.

Quotes by Nawaz Sharif

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As the price of gas goes up, people will become more conscience of how much they use.

Quotes by Mike Rounds

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

Quotes by Mike Royko

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Quotes by Michel Foucault

Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.

Quotes by Michael Novak

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Quotes by Max Beerbohm

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Quotes by Maurice Hinchey

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

Quotes by Maurice Hinchey

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

On the day, therefore, when I went to the church to be confirmed, with a number of others, I suffered extremely from the reproaches of my conscience.

Quotes by Maria Monk

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

Quotes by Marguerite Young

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Quotes by Marguerite Gardiner

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

Quotes by Margaret Deland

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Quotes by Malcolm Wallop

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Mahatma Gandhi

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Mahatma Gandhi

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

Quotes by Luc de Clapiers

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Quotes by Lion Feuchtwanger

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

Quotes by Lillian Hellman

Under the not-so-watchful eye of ACS, children continue to die avoidable deaths. This is beyond unacceptable and betrays our moral conscience.

Quotes by Letitia James

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

Quotes by Leonard Lance

I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.

Quotes by Laurie Holden

Politics isn't that difficult; it is about finding your conscience again. So, just do what is right.

Quotes by Ko Wen-je

We were a country band with a social conscience.

Quotes by Kinky Friedman

In addition the bill would expand an existing law 'conscience clause' that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.

Quotes by Ken Calvert

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

Quotes by Kathryn Bigelow

I have only ever followed my conscience.

Quotes by Katharine Gun

What has to be understood is that most whistle-blowers are not natural activists - this one certainly wasn't. We usually work in anonymous jobs, far from the spotlight. We are not campaigners, or journalists, or wannabe celebrities, craving a platform. Our conscience tells us we have to reveal what we know.

Quotes by Katharine Gun

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Quotes by Karl Barth

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Quotes by Josh Billings

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Quotes by Joseph Cook

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

Quotes by John Sergeant Wise

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

Quotes by John Oldham

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

We are a country with a conscience.

Quotes by John McCain

A clear conscience is a sure card.

Quotes by John Lyly

The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences.

Quotes by John Hockenberry

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

Quotes by John Henry Newman

I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.

Quotes by John Cornwell

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Quotes by John Calvin

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Quotes by Jim Ramstad

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

Quotes by Jesse Jackson

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

Quotes by Jeremy Taylor

I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the right to vote my conscience after careful deliberation. My voting record reflects this.

Quotes by Jeff Fortenberry

With regard to moral rules, the child submits more or less completely in intention to the rules laid down for him, but these, remaining, as it were, external to the subject's conscience, do not really transform his conduct.

Quotes by Jean Piaget

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.

Quotes by Jared Leto

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.

Quotes by James McHenry

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Quotes by James Larkin

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