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Conscience Quotes

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Jim Carroll (1998). “Void of course: poems 1994-1997”, Penguin Group USA

Every religion is good—every religion is true to him who in his good caution and conscience believes it.

Daniel O'Connell (1854). “The Select Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, M. P.”, p.252

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Speech on Freedom of Expression at the European Parliament, February 14, 2008.

Policy sits above conscience.

1605 First Stranger.Timon of Athens, act 3, sc.2, l.87-8.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.15, Serpent's Tail

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

Letter to his son, Scott R. Hayes. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, March 08, 1892.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Fell (1839). “A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian Experiences, and Labour of Love in the Work of the Ministry of that Ancient, Eminent, and Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, George Fox”, p.19

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Jane Austen (2013). “Jane Austen Collection: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, Love and Friendship and Other Austin Works”, p.537, Lulu Press, Inc