Conscience Quotes
If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both.
The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.
We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.
If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.
Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.
Sometimes nothing is so solid to me as writing - I suppose that's what a vocation means - at times a torment, a bad conscience, but all in all, purpose and direction.
Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.
Be honest in every way and enjoy the peace that only a clear conscience can bring you.
In a way, art is a great way to release your love, fantasy, and desires. It's like a fetish. It's a comfortable way of excising a lot of your conscience.
You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct according to your conscience and heart.
Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.
The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.
Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.
Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.
Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.
Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.
There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.
As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.
The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving.
Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!
If we knew we were to die at twelve o'clock tomorrow night, would we have to step up our evangelistic program, or could we in all good conscience carry on just as we are?
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.
It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health there can be no physical health.
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.
A good eater must be a good man; for a good eater must have a good digestion, and a good digestion depends upon a good conscience.
Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe