conscience Quotes

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.