Conscience Quotes
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.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.
A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.
Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.
The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.
For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience
It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.
Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.
A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.
When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.
Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.
Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
