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

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

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.

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

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

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

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

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.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

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

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

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.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

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

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.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

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

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Homophobia is real in this country.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

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

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

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

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.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

In 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there’s a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

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

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

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.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

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

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.