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Conscience Quotes

The quiet voice that won't stay quiet.

These lines turn on the difference between vanity and conscience - what looks honorable versus what actually feels just. Several speak to the discomfort of standing by while others struggle, a thread that connects naturally to our Consciousness collection.

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

Public opinion is described here as a kind of second conscience, pressing alongside the private one. For nearby ideas, see our Awareness and Conscious quote pages.