(532 quotes found)
“Conscience... is the impulse to do right because it is right, regardless of personal ends.”
Margaret C. Graham
“I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience”
William Shakespeare
“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
Albert Camus
“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul”
John Calvin
“Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.”
Doug Horton
“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others”
Thomas Jefferson
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another”
W. H. Auden
“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties”
John Milton
“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”
D.H. Lawrence
“I wasn't driven into medicine by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity.”
Jonathan Miller
