Conscience Quotes

"If I can go to sleep after taking a tough position, then I know that I've done something right."

"Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics."

"If one does not lie to one's own conscience, one lives in the hearts of all."

Thiruvalluvar

"Do not speak what your own heart knows to be false; your conscience will burn you for it."

Thiruvalluvar

"Truth is not always the same as the majority decision."

Pope John Paul II

"There comes a time when silence is betrayal."

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."

Leo Tolstoy

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."

Leo Tolstoy

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Harper Lee

"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

"Conscience is the most sacred of all property."

James Madison

"A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder."

Thomas Fuller

“Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular?" But conscience asks the question, "Is it right?"

“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 law.”

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

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

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”

“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.”

“Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.”

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

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."

George Washington