Jim Carroll
Poet
"Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us."
Conscience quotes
Conscience
185 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Activist, Author
"Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience."
Muhammad
Religious Leader
"When something weighs on your conscience, give it up."
Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Policy sits above conscience."
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"Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him."
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"A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others."
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"Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience."
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"Conscience is God present in man."
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"There is no college for the conscience."
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"I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves."
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"An overblown conscience is an empty conscience."
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"The only guide to man is his conscience."
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"Reason deceives us; conscience, never."
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"Knowledge is a weight added to conscience."
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"Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind."
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"There's so few people in this town with a conscience."
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"We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government."
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"Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences."
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"I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write."
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"Conscience gets expensive, doesn't it?"
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"Conscience is the root of all true courage."
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"The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience."
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"The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience."
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"Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience."
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