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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Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. 
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Edward R. Murrow All Conscience Quotes
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Nelson Algren 
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
Malcolm Wallop
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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
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To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.
Eli Khamarov
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The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.
Sergio Aragones
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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
Charlotte Bronte
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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
Madame de Stael
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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 ColeThomas Paine
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