Conscience Quotes

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselve...

My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out ...

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute f...

Ceux qui revent eveilles ont conscience de 1000 choses qui echapent a ceux qui ne revent qu'endormis...

What are you Tarzan?" he asked aloud. "An ape or a man? If you are an ape, you will do as the apes d...

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is i...

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

A satellite has no conscience.

The soft whispers of the God in man.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep kn...

It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes...

Some people just needed to be stolen from.

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you comb...

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither pris...

Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

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

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.

Conscience, Christ, and the gift of faith make evil men uneasy in their sin. They feel that if they ...

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there ar...

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breat...

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must...

He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then. That is to say none at all.

It isn't a natural thing to keep on worrying about the morality of one's material prosperity. These ...

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

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always begins to trouble us at the ...

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of h...

Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as ...

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself.The one thing that doesn't a...

...but before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't ...

Atticus, you must be wrong." "How's that?" "Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're ...

«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and ou...

Is there not a sort of blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man's real ma...

It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience. But a corporation of conscientious men...

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator...

The only incorruptible thing about us.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point an...

Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for g...

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circums...

We estimate wrongdoing in proportion to the purity of our conscience

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...

How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.

A standing prick hath no conscience. And if that standing prick is attached to Bruce Robertson then ...

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate yo...

Are your principles not engraved in all hearts, and in order to learn your laws is it not enough to ...

If a man happen to take it into his head to assassinate with his own hands, or with the sword of jus...

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a ...

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter ...

Isana laughed. "And you, lady? Are you a woman of conscience or of ambition?"The lady smiled. "That'...

No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the ...

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matter...

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libert...

What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are we...

This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on...

To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; ...

God, if he believed in Him, and his conscience, if he had one, were the only judges to whom he was a...

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience d...

Highly evolved people have their own conscience as pure law.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a c...

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the...

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the dem...

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

All human life, we may say, consists solely of these two activities: (1) bringing one’s activities i...

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!

There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're ...

I almost wish I hadn't any conscience; its so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right and d...

I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right, and...

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does no...

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have ...

I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of ...

I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I know...

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: fr...

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

If I had the remaking of man, he wouldn't have any conscience. It is one of the most disagreeable th...

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense,...

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be hap...

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here ...

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great ...

It is neither right nor safe to go against my conscience.

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner,...

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but...

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it p...

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice o...

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and vo...

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under...

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to...