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Quotes about Conscience

The strong could make their own law, live their own lives; in fact, they were beyond good and evil. What was good and what was evil? It is easy enough to stifle conscience for a time. The satisfied flesh has its own law.
- Dorothy Day
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
- Albert Schweitzer
The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.
- Mike Pence
There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.
- Mother Teresa
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.
- Brian Houston
A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.
- Richard Baxter
What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
- Jimmy Carter