Top Conscience Quotes
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.
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore De Balzac
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
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
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
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Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert McNamara 
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Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
Robert Redford
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
Bono
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
Mohandas Gandhi
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Leo Tolstoy
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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
Frank Howard Clark
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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.
Shirley Temple
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I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
Simon Wiesenthal
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Popular Conscience Authors
Friedrich NietzscheGeorge Bernard ShawWilliam ShakespeareMark TwainBenjamin FranklinMohandas GandhiAlbert EinsteinVictor HugoLucius Annaeus SenecaThomas Jefferson VoltaireAmbrose BierceBenjamin DisraeliH. L. Mencken Sophocles
Bertrand RussellGeorge EliotWill RogersAlbert CamusMartin Luther King, Jr.Michel de MontaigneHonore De BalzacLyndon B. JohnsonJosh BillingsLord ChesterfieldJean de la BruyereGustave FlaubertWilliam Butler YeatsEdwin Louis ColeWoodrow Wilson
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