Conscience Quotes

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

Life, Good, Friends

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Love, Strength, Business

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

Against, State, Demands

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

Life, Happiness, Good

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

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

Justice, Higher, Court

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

God, Freedom, Country

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin

Good, Christmas, Continual

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Love, Strength, Business

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mahatma Gandhi

Human, Small, Voice

Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

Change, May, Liberty

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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington

Fire, Keep, Alive

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

Law, Place, Matters

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus

Work, Art, Guilty

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.
Martin Luther

God, Help, Cannot

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach

Honesty, Listen, Measure

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Truth, Evidence

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey

Change, Power, Freedom

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Judge, Evil, Another

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Blame, Reason

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus

Government, Nothing, Sometimes

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing, Dangerous, Bigot

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.
Will Rogers

Getting, Letting, Lawyers

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin Luther

Feelings, Word, Lord

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
Voltaire

Life, Death, Fear

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney

Good, Freedom, Waiting

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther

End, Justice, Die

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