Conscience Quotes

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." "Your own conscience is the only thing you've got to answer to" "It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners." "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" "Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience" "Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe " "Conscience is a man’s compass" "The bell of truth sounds loudest in times of moral tension and decision." "The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most" "The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." "The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience." "I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen" "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" "Always vote for principle though you may vote alone" "Conscience is God present in man" "We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void." "Murder will out, certain" "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose" "A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory" "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."