It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.
I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.
I believe you have to nurture your conscience.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.
I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.
When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.