#conscience

All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#guilt #plagiarism #teacher

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#politics #right #time

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#individual #individual responsibility #judgment #like #nothing

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#apparatus #challenge #conscience #humanity #legal

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever. ↗

— Maurice Hinchey

#american #any #citizenry #companies #conscience

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#conscience #difference #hold #law #moral

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. ↗

— John Tyler

#being #being responsible #conscience #created #fellow

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#both #conscience #effective #engages #meek

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#anything #conscience #demands #even #never

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#closely #conscience #contemporary #content #examining