Definition of Conscience

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Conscience

Knowledge of one's own thoughts or actions; consciousness.

The faculty, power, or inward principle which decides as to the character of one's own actions, purposes, and affections, warning against and condemning that which is wrong, and approving and prompting to that which is right; the moral faculty passing judgment on one's self; the moral sense.

The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.

Tenderness of feeling; pity.

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Conscience Quotations

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson

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.
Stephen Covey

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

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Mark Twain

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

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 the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

One who breaks an unjust 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Conscience Translations

conscience in Afrikaans is gewete
conscience in Dutch is geweten
conscience in Finnish is omatunto
conscience in German is Gewissen
conscience in Hungarian is lelkiismeret
conscience in Italian is coscienza
conscience in Latin is conscientia
conscience in Norwegian is samvittighet
conscience in Spanish is conciencia, conciencia
conscience in Swedish is samvete

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