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"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience"

French Proverb Topics: Conscience Editor's Pick Famous Pearls of Wisdom Quote of the Day

"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."

Martin Luther Topics: Conscience German Leader

"Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure."

Ronald Reagan Topics: Conscience

"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 Topics: Conscience French Writer

"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. IsnÃ¢â¬â¢t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am askedÃ¢â¬âas I am surprisingly oftenÃ¢â¬âwhy I bother to get up in the mornings."

Richard Dawkins Topics: Conscience

"This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation."

Al Sharpton Topics: Conscience

"Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility."

Elizabeth Stanton Topics: American Activist Conscience

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Topics: American Musician Conscience

"Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction."

Ada Leverson Topics: Conscience Giving

"without God, there is no virtue because there's no prompting of the conscience. And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."

Ronald Reagan Topics: Conscience

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

Mahatma Gandhi Topics: Conscience Indian Leader

"I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful / of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified. I am not a man I am dynamite."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Topics: Conscience

"But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. . . . It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good . . ."

Mark Twain Topics: Blessings Conscience Pain

"These are not simple issues. These are the kinds of events that shock the conscience of humankind, but so far we have proven that we are not willing or capable of stopping them."

Scott Straus Topics: Conscience

"Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Topics: Conscience

"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."

Adam Smith Topics: Conscience Quotes

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to = remain silent."

Thomas Jefferson Topics: Conscience

"The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most"

Erich Fromm Topics: Conscience

"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."

Johann Lavater Topics: Conscience

"The soul's emphasis is always right."

Ralph Waldo Emerson Topics: Conscience Soul

"a hero who carried the torch of justice at a time when there was a paralysis of conscience over responsibility for the Holocaust."

Abraham Foxman Topics: Conscience

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