Political Conscience Quotes

#1. I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid.

Peter Coyote

#2. When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

Christopher Reeve

#3. I grew up at a time where I think most people had a social and political conscience. Some of the biggest changes in our country's political history happened at the time I was growing up, so I was raised to be a part of those things and to participate and I will continue to do that as much as I can.

George Clooney

#4. My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

Daniel Bruhl

#5. The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

Franz Von Papen

#6. Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

Jose Saramago

#7. I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

Marguerite Young

#8. I do not belong to any political party because I am not a party to the wrongs they eventually do.

Amit Abraham

#9. Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

Lord Acton

#10. Everything is addictive to me but tattoos are addictive to all.

The Rev

#11. No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever.

Ulysses S. Grant

#12. Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.

Geoffrey Household

#14. Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

Stanley Milgram

#15. If you want to succeed in politics you must keep your conscience firmly under control.

David Lloyd George

#16. The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#17. Because unless you take your women by force, there was never a chance in hell I'd be in your bed. Vibrators were invented for women when their options were limited to men like you.

Ada Frost

#18. Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles ... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. Healing of the world's woes will not come through this or that social or political theory; not through violent changes in government, but in the still small voice that speaks to the conscience and the heart.

Arthur James Moore

#20. We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for what's not quite right is quite wrong.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. There's good art and there's bad art. A lot of action films are bad art, but Paul Greengrass showed us with the Bourne films that it's possible to make an action film with a political, social conscience.

Joe Wright

#22. The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#23. I'm thinking of how unexpected and yet oddly preordained life can be. Events are upon you in an instant, unforseen and without warning, and often times marked with disappointment and tragedy, but equally often leading to a better understanding of the bittersweet truth of life.

Rob Lowe

#24. Peace depends ultimately not on political arrangements but on the conscience of mankind.

Henry A. Kissinger

#25. We newspaper readers all have our pet vexations. Somewhere in one of those sections is the column we anxiously turn to for the sole purpose of disagreeing with the columnist. Volubly.

Barbara Kingsolver

#26. I have no desire to carry a movie.

Amy Sedaris

#27. There is nothing in the world that could make me turn from the law. With a clear conscience, I am prepared to answer for each and every one of my political and administrative orders and actions, and to do so before the court of public opinion ...

Djemal Pasha

#28. A psychopath can tell what you're thinking but what they don't do is feel what you feel. These are people without a conscience.

Robert D. Hare

#29. Thus the conscience, though it may lead the unsaved man aright in some areas, cannot save him, since it is defiled, seared, and evil. But in regeneration it is cleansed and used by the Lord to guide the believer in his political, vocational, spiritual, and social relations.

Charles C. Ryrie