A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.
— Mark Twain
I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism.
— Oskar Schindler
Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is.
— John G. Lake
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal life.
— Mark Twain
Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none.
— Stokely Carmichael
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind; that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.
— Susanna Wesley
There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.
— Stokely Carmichael
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
Who taught me that animals were put on this Earth for food? Who taught me to disrespect animals and view them as mere commodities? Who stole my compassion, my empathy and my conscience? Who lied to me? Who instilled this vicious mindset of human-to-animal exploitation as standard operating procedure?
— Gary Yourofsky
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
— Ida B. Wells
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.
— Omar N. Bradley
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.
— Thomas Paine
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
Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience.
.. without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
— Ronald Reagan
If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.
— George Whitefield
As touching nature I am a worm of this earth, and yet a subject of this commonwealth; but as touching the office wherein it has pleased God to place me, I am a watchman… For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.
— John Knox
Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?
— Lottie Moon
Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.
— Susan B. Anthony
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation.
— Pol Pot
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term ‘hero’ irritates me greatly – the opposite is true – I continue to have pangs of conscience that I did so little.
— Irena Sendler
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
— Woodrow Wilson
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
— George Bernard Shaw
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.
— Martin Luther
The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.
— Sathya Sai Baba
Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience
— J. R. D. Tata
Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Declaration of Conscience – The Declaration of Conscience was a Cold War speech made by U.S. Senator from Maine, Margaret Chase Smith on June 1, 1950, less than four months after
Whig Party (United States) – factions concerning slavery: the anti-slavery Conscience Whigs and the pro-South Cotton Whigs. While the “Consciences” were noted for their moral opposition
Prick of Conscience – The Prick of Conscience is a Middle English poem dating from the first half of the fourteenth century promoting penitential reflection. It is, in terms
The Conscience of the King – “The Conscience of the King” is the thirteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Barry
Shocks the conscience – Shocks the conscience is a phrase used as a legal standard in the United States and Canada. An action is understood to “shock the conscience” if it is
Conscience for Change – Conscience for Change is a book of transcribed lectures by Martin Luther King Jr. that includes five talks King gave in late 1967 for the Canadian Broadcasting
The Conscience of a Conservative – The Conscience of a Conservative is a 1960 book published under the name of Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater who was the 1964 Republican presidential candidate
Collective consciousness – Collective consciousness, collective conscience, or collective conscious (French: conscience collective) is the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral
Guilty Conscience (song) – “Guilty Conscience” is a song by American rapper Eminem, featuring American hip hop record producer Dr. Dre. It was released as the third and final single
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext infringed.
— James Madison
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits.
— Paul Tillich
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
— Marquis De Sade
The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporfic to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites.
— Steven Biko
I think the currency of leadership is transparency.
— Howard Schultz
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state;
— Roger Williams
It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.
— Charles Grandison Finney
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.
— Harry Belafonte
