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“Men must learn now with pity to dispense; for policy sits above conscience.” William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
“I submit that 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...” Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Conscience, my dear fellow, is a stick which every one takes up to beat his neighbor and not for application to his own back.” Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds; let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.” John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address
“No man could demand from him an account of his actions; God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.” Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.” Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom
“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“We only labour to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
“The antagonism between life and the conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.” Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“Love is too young to know what conscience is;” William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“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, Three Men in a Boat
“Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devis'd at first to keep the strong in awe” William Shakespeare, Richard III
“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“What pillow can one have like a good conscience?” John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

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