The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

 —General Omar Bradley

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

—Billy Graham

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

—Albert Einstein

When a man won’t listen to his conscience, it’s usually because he doesn’t want advice from a total stranger.

—Lindsey Stewart

I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

Conscience is a cudgel, which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

 – Honore de Balzac

Developing the mind is important, but developing a conscience is the most precious gift parents can give their children.

—John Gray

Conscience that isn’t hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

—Margaret Deland

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

—Harper Lee

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.

—Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

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

—Eleanor Roosevelt

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us.

– Joseph Addison