Conscience Quotes

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...

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a ...

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a cl...

Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justic...

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of ...

I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cann...

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm...

Conscience reigns but it does not govern.

The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not ...

You can do what's right, or you can do what you are told.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you th...

There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart o...

Until you guys own your own souls you don't own mine. Until you guys can be trusted every time and a...

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

RICH I’m lamenting. I’ve lost my innocence.CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you’ve only just...

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it d...

You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less...

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

To cast in my lot with Jekyll, was to die to those appetites which I had long secretly indulged and ...

We can grant, too, that for social problems to be diagnosed, some detachment from society is necessa...

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Shame arises from the fear of man conscience from the fear of God.

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating in us.

Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the wor...

...I have had a remarkable experience. In the past the prophetic voice to which I have become accust...

He had a clear conscience. Never used it.

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

To suffer is one thing; another thing is living with the photographed images of suffering, which doe...

- a bad conscience is indeed able to make life interesting.

Your burden is not to clear your conscienceBut to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.

I'm not so fond of people myself, Evvy, but I took my vows for a reason. There are two classes of pe...

Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousnes...

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonize...

Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, i...

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.

Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an ...

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in th...

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels som...

To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most in...

...Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular ty...

At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that consci...

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, th...

That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new socia...

A man's vanity tells him what is honour a man's conscience what is justice.

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

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

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement a...

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing ...

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other p...