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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.
Leo Tolstoy
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
Henry David Thoreau
The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
George Bernard Shaw
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma Gandhi
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.
Christopher Hitchens
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
Thomas Hobbes
A clear conscience is a soft pillow.
Proverb
I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much a part of man as his leg or arm. It is given to all human beings in a stronger or weaker degree, as force of members is given them in a greater or lesser degree. It may be strengthened by exercise, as may an
Thomas Jefferson
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.
Immanuel Kant
What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Joseph Cook
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
William Shakespeare
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
Ernest Hemingway
