Conscience Quotes

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

Laws change. Conscience doesn't.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is slicked o'er with the pale cast of thought

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

To remove blood stains from your conscience try frozen margaritas.

But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

Policy sits above conscience.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Above all we should not forget, that government is an evil, an usurpation upon the private judgment and individual conscience of mankind.

When You smoke herb it reveals you to yourself. All the wickedness you do is revealed by the herb - it's you conscience and gives you an honest picture of yourself.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Never worry about what other people say or think. Do the right. Have a clear conscience and roam about happily.

There is no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

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

The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.

A vote is "wasted" when someone fails to vote their conscience.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience

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

We cannot look to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity...Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

A guilty conscience never feels secure.

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.