Conscience Quotes
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.
You carve out the organization's character through your daily choices. You shape its conscience as you exercise your own.
The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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.
Are you genuine? Or just an actor? A representative? Or what it is that is represented?-In the end, you might merely be someone mimicking an actor ... Second question of conscience.
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.
First, there must be talent. . .Then there must be discipline. . .Then there must be. . .and absolute conscience. . .to prevent faking.
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
Whenever conscience commands anything, there is only one thing to fear, and that is fear.
Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.
Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.
It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who. . .drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime.
God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.
If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.
Most men's conscience, habits, and opinions are borrowed from convention and gather continually comforting assurances from the same social consensus that originally suggested them.
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
A tranquil conscience invites freedom from anguish, sorrow, guilt, shame, and self-condemnation. It provides a foundation for happiness. It is a condition of immense worth.
At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.
There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing.
We must look at the institution of slavery as publicists, and not as casuists. It is a question of law, and not a case of conscience.
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.