Conscience Quotes
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
You’ll have to be my conscience.” He knew his flaws, and he knew the parts of him that were irrevocably broken. “Mine isn’t going to grow back.
We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.
The hated man is the result of his hater's pride rather than his hater's conscience.
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.
In addition the bill would expand an existing law "conscience clause" that protects physician training programs that refuse to provide training for abortion procedures.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat.
We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.
Recognition of the Genocide is the triumph of human conscience and justice over intolerance and hatred.
Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't a program it has to be a way of life.
A great business has to have a conscience. You have to know who you are and who you are not.
God desires that we become spiritually healthy enough through faith to have a conscience that rightly interprets the work of the Holy Spirit.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. Hear and you forget, see and you remember, do and you understand.
I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
The inversion of external compulsion into the compulsion of conscience ... produces the machine-like assiduity and pliable allegiance required by the new rationality.
One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.
Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.
If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and nonviolence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer.
In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.
You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.
