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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I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
Jim Doyle 
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I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing
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I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
Tim McGraw
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
William E. Gladstone
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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.
Donald Cargill
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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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