(532 quotes found)
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“When a man won't listen to his conscience, it's usually because he doesn't want advice from a total stranger”
Lindsey Stewart
“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
“There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.”
Sophocles
“The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within”
“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
Thomas Paine
“Ghandi's seven sins:Wealth without workPleasure without conscienceKnowledge without characterCommerce without moralityScience without humilityWorship without sacrificePolitics without principle”
Mahatma Ghandi
“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.”
Richard Dawkins
