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- Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
- William Punshon
- Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
- Karl Barth (1886 - 1968)
- Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
- Pope Pius XI (1857 - 1939)
- I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- The conscience of a people is their power.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".
- Robert Millikan (1868 - 1953)
- If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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