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Quotes about Consciences

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Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created. Votes: 3

Jose Saramago

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Evil societies always kill their consciences. Votes: 0

James L. Farmer, Jr.

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Our enemies are our outward consciences. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Even true believers had consciences, Too bad. Votes: 0

Tom Clancy

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The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences. Votes: 0

Alan Moore

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The media doesn't need a conscience; people need consciences. Votes: 0

John Hockenberry

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personally I don't trust literature that soothes people's consciences. Votes: 0

Antonio Tabucchi

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Shut up in the prison of their own consciences. Votes: 0

James Ussher

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Our consciences are not all of the same pattern. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children Votes: 0

Mary McCarthy

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People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children. Votes: 0

Mary McCarthy

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People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy. Votes: 0

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences. Votes: 0

Anne Bradstreet

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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. Votes: 0

Ogden Nash

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Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. Votes: 0

Roger Williams

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Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences. Votes: 0

Pliny the Elder

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No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences Votes: 0

William Penn

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Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. Votes: 0

Doris Lessing

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Ethics is a detergent word, used time and time again to clean consciences without scrubbing. Votes: 0

Corinne Maier

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Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt. Votes: 0

Robert Reich

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The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men. Votes: 0

Thomas a Kempis

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That's how most of us would feel. But the sport has a few deviants without consciences. Votes: 0

Joe Henderson

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Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences. Votes: 0

Chris Nicolaisen

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In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. Votes: 0

Robert Casey

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When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them. Votes: 0

C. Terry Warner

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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls. Votes: 0

Mo Yan

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Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour. Votes: 0

Emile Durkheim

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Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so. Votes: 0

Robert H. Jackson

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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England. Votes: 0

Mary, Queen of Scots

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? Votes: 0

Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. Votes: 0

John Stuart Mill

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Gods law has been written on all of our consciences, but only in Christ is it written on our hearts. Votes: 0

Alistair Begg

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Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening. Votes: 0

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind". Votes: 0

Robert Andrews Millikan

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I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. Votes: 0

Kenneth Kaunda

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Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences. Votes: 0

Barbara Deming

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We believe in enjoying the constitutional privilege and right of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own consciences. Votes: 0

Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one. Votes: 0

Herman Melville

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Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God. Votes: 0

J. Oswald Sanders

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities. Votes: 0

Naguib Mahfouz

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A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course. Votes: 0

Richard Baxter

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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon. Votes: 0

J. I. Packer

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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity. Votes: 0

Robert E. Lee

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I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences. Votes: 0

James Ussher

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Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect. Votes: 0

Dominique Pire

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Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival. Votes: 0

Tad Williams

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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. Votes: 0

Isaac Barrow

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Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men. Votes: 0

David Brainerd

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The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York Votes: 0

Frank Dane

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Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it. Votes: 0

Billy Graham

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We must enter and take possession of the consciences of the children, of the consciences of the young, because they do belong, and should belong to the revolution. Votes: 0

Plutarco Elias Calles

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Self-interest is the most ingenious and persuasive of all the agents that deceive our consciences, while by means of it our unhappy and stubborn prejudices operate in their greatest force. Votes: 0

William C. Bryant

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Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously. Votes: 0

Jacques Lacan

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Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society. Votes: 0

Michael Novak

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Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society Votes: 0

Michael Novak

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This is the ministry and its work--not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks. Votes: 0

Frederick William Robertson

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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found. Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences. Votes: 0

Maria Monk

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I do consider my engaged poetry as a personal mission, a duty toward a society which evolves into a system of control of consciences: one even becomes a suspect for not thinking correctly! Votes: 0

Jan Theuninck

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Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders. Votes: 0

Orestes Brownson

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The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro. Votes: 0

Roman Baldorioty de Castro

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It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages. Votes: 0

Walter J Chantry

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Many Indians and Israelis seem set to elect, with untroubled consciences, those who speak the language of torturers and terrorists. More disturbingly, these corrupted democracies may increasingly prove the norm rather than the exception. Votes: 0

Pankaj Mishra

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The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences. Votes: 0

John Frame

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I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences. Votes: 0

Hollace M. Metzger

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Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean.

Ralph Washington Sockman

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How long do Syrian families have to live in fear that their children will be killed or tortured, before the Security Council will act? How many people need to die before the consciences of world capitals are stirred?

William Hague

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The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.

William Penn

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Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's consciences; they therefore persecute all of us who have the temerity to tell the truth.

Frederick the Great

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All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong.

Leontyne Price

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But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.

Henry Parry Liddon

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Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.

Charles Grandison Finney

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Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.

George Washington

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I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

David Draiman

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Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

Timothy Pickering

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In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.

Richard Sibbes

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Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.

Richard Baxter

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When people were conscious of a God whose character was moral law, when their consciences were informed by a sense of rightness, their watchmen would shout halt when they trespassed the law. Now their watchmen are silent. They serve no king and protect no kingdom.

James W. Sire

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I don't trust Catholics," I said, "because they take advantage of you." "And Protestants?" he asked with a laugh. "I loathe the way they fumble around with their consciences." "And atheists?" He was still laughing. "They bore me because all they ever talk about is God.

Heinrich BÃ¶ll

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It is time that the great center of our people, who reject the violence and unreasonableness of both the extreme right and the extreme left, searched their consciences, mustered their moral and physical courage, shed their intimidated silence, and declare their consciences.

Margaret Chase Smith

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The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

Robert Andrews Millikan

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Though the archbishop may rightly argue that they are objectively wrong in their positions, I don't understand how he can presume to know the consciences of Vice President [Joe] Biden and Senator [Tim] Kaine sufficiently to question the genuineness of their faith and condemn them personally.

John I. Jenkins

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The myth of integration as propounded under the banner of the liberal ideology must be cracked because it makes people believe that something is being achieved when in reality the artificially integrated circles are a soporfic to the blacks while salving the consciences of the few guilt-stricken whites.

Steven Biko

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In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in favour of spectacle, the main goal must be to awaken people's consciences, raising traumatising problems and sending ideological electroshocks: shocking ideas.

Guillaume Faye

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