Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [301-320] of 368 Conscience quotesConscience QuotesConscience Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.~ Bruce Schneier If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.~ Carl Schurz I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.~ Albert Schweitzer Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Our lack of constant awareness has also permitted us to accept definitions of freedom that are not necessarily consistent with the actuality of being free. Because we have learned to confuse the word with the reality the word seeks to describe, our vocabulary has become riddled with distorted and contradictory meanings smuggled into the language.~ Butler D. Shaffer Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.~ George Bernard Shaw It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind.~ George Bernard Shaw There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.~ Hartley Shawcross Heretics were often most bitterly persecuted for their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness. Why can they not yield on so trifling a matter?~ Leo Shestov If we were all to be judged by our thoughts, the hills would be swarming with outlaws.~ Johann Sigurjonsson It is not the benevolence of the butcher, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.~ Adam Smith We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.~ Solon Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.~ Baruch Spinoza For more than six hundred years -- that is, since the Magna Carta in 1215 -- there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts, what is the law, and what was the moral intent of the accused; but that it is also their right, and their primary and paramount duty, to judge the justice of the law, and to hold all laws invalid, that are, in their opinion, unjust, oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating or resisting the execution of such laws.~ Lysander Spooner One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are a statistic.~ Josef Stalin And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.~ John Steinbeck The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.~ Justice John Paul Stevens If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow it wherever the search may lead us.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II [A] function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve it’s high purpose when it indices a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with things as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for understanding.~ Justice Potter Stewart If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.~ Harlan F. Stone Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print