Conscience Quotes
... 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.
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.
The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most.
Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.
A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician.
For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.
The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.
Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim.
One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.
I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
My conscience is crosswired with my sweat glands, but there's a short in the system and I break out over things I didn't do, which only makes me look more suspect.
You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
According to the state of a man's conscience, so do hope and fear on account of his deeds arise in his mind.
Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
