Conscience Quotes

"Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape, ... John Johnson was one of these men."

"He made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice"

"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward"

"Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it."

"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us."

"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain."

"The soul's emphasis is always right."

"Conscience is a man's compass"

"If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?"

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."

"With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own"

"I'm glad I haven't got the sort of conscience I've got to nurse like a sick puppy all the time."

"It is always term-Time in the Court of Conscience"

"Conscience is a man's compass."

"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."

"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings."

"This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation."

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."