Top 70 Conscience Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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2. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

— Elie Wiesel

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3. “There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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4. “I don’t fear for a physical death, but when my conscience dies, that is a real death.”

— Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale

5. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.””

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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6. “One person of integrity can make a difference.”

— Elie Wiesel

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7. “It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.”

— Voltaire

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8. “Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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9. “You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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10. “A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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11. “A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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12. “Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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13. “To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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14. “You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.”

— Brian Tracy

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15. “A quiet conscience makes one strong!”

— Anne Frank

16. “Character is not only doing the right thing when no one is looking, it’s doing the right thing when everyone is looking. It’s being willing to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”

— Michael Josephson

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17. “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

— Harper Lee

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18. “Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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19. “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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20. “Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.”

— Michael J. Fox

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21. “I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes

22. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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23. “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.”

— Robert H. Schuller

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24. “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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25. “How many deaths will it take ’till we know that too many people have died?”

— Bob Dylan

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26. “Where does one seek the do’s and don'ts on karma? Listen to your conscience; your inner gut feeling. Don’t do anything which you don’t want others to do to you. That is the criteria.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

27. “Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.”

— Leon Brown

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28. “Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

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29. “I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”

— Frederick Douglass

30. “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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31. “Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

32. “The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes

33. “Never compromise your values.”

— Steve Maraboli

34. “The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.”

— Mother Teresa

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35. “Always do the right thing even when the right thing is the hard thing.”

— Bryan Stevenson

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36. “Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.”

— Zoroaster

37. “It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.”

— Nelson Mandela

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38. “A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.”

— Marianne Williamson

39. “I don’t wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.”

— TobyMac

Also featured in: Discipleship Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Humble Quotes

40. “Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.”

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Also featured in: Truth Quotes, Principles And Laws

41. “I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

42. “The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also featured in: Suffering Quotes, Guilt Quotes

43. “Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

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44. “If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.”

— Sallie Krawcheck

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45. “Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.”

— Matthew Kelly

46. “Conscience is God present in man.”

— Victor Hugo

47. “Make the world a better place because you have lived in it.”

— Edgar Cayce

Also featured in: Service Quotes

48. “Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

49. “You’ll never go wrong in doing what is right.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Common Sense Quotes, Duty Quotes, School Quotes

50. “Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself.”

— Susanna Wesley