There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

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

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

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

Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

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

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.