Quotes about Conscience

No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

For though consciences are as unlike as foreheads, every intelligence, not including the Scriptural devils who "believe and tremble" has one.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

How was it possible that men, women, and children are being burned and that the world kept silent?

I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that is, with discipline.

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.