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.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

William Shakespeare

Public opinion is a second conscience.

Quotes by William R. Alger

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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

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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.