Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking..

H. L. MENCKEN

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience..

JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE

Courage without conscience is a wild beast..

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach..

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING

First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me..

MARTIN NIEMOLLER

I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do..

CHRISTOPHER REEVE

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice..

ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale. (Richard III).

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change..

KENNETH KAUNDA

The paradoxical -- and tragic -- situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most..

ERICH FROMM

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping..

IZAAK WALTON

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul..

JOHN CALVIN

Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong..

ANNE FRANK

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander..

HOLOCAUST MUSEUM, WASHINGTON, DC

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'.

CARL JUNG

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men..

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core..

HANNAH ARENDT

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU

Conscience is one of the most underrated of all human traits... and probably the most valuable.

MYSTIC LEVELLO