Conscience

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
Thomas de Quincey
Life
Wife
Conscience
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Conscience
Example
Importance
I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.
Pol Pot
People
Conscience
Nation
Now
If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
Kenneth L. Pike
Conscience
Trouble
Will
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Robert Peel
Agitation
Conscience
Laws
Nation
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II
Men
Society
Women
Purpose
Conscience
Freedom
Humanity
Law
Voice
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Jean Paul
Children
Conscience
Evil
Result
The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.
Franz von Papen
Act
Conscience
Freedom
Nation
Spiritual
Will
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
Business
Death
Heart
Conscience
Principles
Will
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
Business
Death
Love
Heart
Strength
Conscience
Man
Principles
Reflection
Smile
Trouble
Will
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
James Otis
Soul
Conscience
Folly
Guilt
Malice
Name
We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.
Carl von Ossietzky
Conscience
World
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
Michael Novak
Society
Conscience
Proof
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Power
Being
Blame
Causes
Conscience
Judgment
Praise
Reason
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Conscience
Evil