(501 quotes found)
“Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it”
Albert Einstein
“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
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
Mark Twain
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”
“Love is too young to know what conscience is.”
William Shakespeare
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
“The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.”
Winston Churchill