Consciences Quotes

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

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.

Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.