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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George Bernard Shaw All 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. 
87% of people like this quote
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Honore De Balzac
80% of people like this quote
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
76% of people like this quote
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
72% of people like this quote
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
71% of people like this quote
As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
Wilhelm Frick
69% of people like this quote
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
Carl Jung
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We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
Claus von Stauffenberg
68% of people like this quote
Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.
George Bancroft
67% of people like this quote
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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 ColeWoodrow Wilson
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