Conscience Quotes - Page 7

• Conscience is a Jewish invention.

  Adolf Hitler

  Invention

  "Hitler Speaks". Book by Hermann Rauschning, p. 220, 1939.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Justice, Court

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Collected Works”

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• People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Business, People, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.165, Diderot Publishing

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• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Giving, Liberty

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34

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• The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Spiritual, Church, Doe

  1963 Strength to Love.

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• O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

  William Shakespeare

  Coward

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 3, l. 178

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• Conscience is the root of all true courage.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Courage, Roots, Courage And Leadership

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.

  Horace

  Guilt, Pale, Clear

  "Epistles", I. 1. 60, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 130-31, 1922.

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• The still small voice is wanted.

  William Cowper

  Voice, Wanted, Stills

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.211

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• Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

  George Crabbe

  Art, Men, Faithful

  George Crabbe, Allan Cunningham (1855). “George Crabbe's Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.146

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• O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

  Dante Alighieri

  Faithful, Littles, Failing

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song III, 8, 1321.

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• Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Life, Courage, Men

  James Freeman Clarke (1880). “Self-culture, lectures”

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• 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 the law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Respect, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

  Martin Luther

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  1521 Speech in defence of his doctrines at the Diet of Worms, 18 Apr.

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• And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

  John Milton

  Light, Umpires, Safe

  1665 Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.3, l.194-7.

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• What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Women, Wine

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• Love is too young to know what conscience is.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Young, Knows

  William Shakespeare, Gwynne Blakemore Evans, Anthony Hecht (1996). “The Sonnets”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

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• It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

  Mark Twain

  Wisdom, Country, Freedom

  Following the Equator ch. 20, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Honesty, Creativity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Play, Acting

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [641]

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• Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

  Evan Esar

  Mother, Boys, Guilt

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• A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

  William Faulkner

  God, Dream, Men

  William Faulkner, Paul Gardner, Eric Mottram (1976). “A Faulkner perspective: a companion-guide to the limited first edition of the Selected letters of William Faulkner”

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

  Lillian Hellman

  Fashion, Cutting, Long Ago

  Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

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