#conscience

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#conscience

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#judgement-day #conscience

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #conscience

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#conscience #fault #how #little #sting

Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience. ↗

— James McHenry

#cannot #conscience #courses #enjoy #men

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear. ↗

— Pol Pot

#clear #conscience #did #i #join

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#carried #concerning #conscience #duty #even

We must have clean air and water, and beautiful natural foods for everyone, everywhere. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#clear-conscience #environment #beauty

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#courage #majority #minority #truth #courage

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us. ↗

— Jim Carroll

#conscience #death #ghosts #poetry #death