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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it”
Albert Einstein
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.”
Richard Bach
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world”
C.S. Lewis
“The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' But conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
William Shakespeare