Courage without conscience is a wild beast. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour. —Saint Augustine More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right? —William Punshon More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. The highest test of a people's fitness for free institutions is their willingness to obey law. In monarchies and empires physical force restrains the multitude and maintains government. In a democracy all depends on the intelligence and conscience of the people. —John Ireland (bishop) More about this quote Tags: intelligence force conscience liberty laws Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: satisfaction judgement conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I learned to believe in freedom, to glow when the word democracy was used, and to practice slavery from morning to night. I learned it the way all of my Southern people learn it: by closing door after door until one's mind and heart and conscience are blocked off from each other and from reality. —Lillian Smith More about this quote Tags: reality freedom democracy conscience slavery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't buy a clean conscience. —Jodi Picoult in Mercy More about this quote Tags: conscience money Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email