Conscience Quotes

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation.

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

Truth will never imprison you. Only the repression of your conscience will. This is what is meant by 'THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE'.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Conscience is a man's compass.

[On disagreeing with her husband about his slave-holding:] I cannot give my conscience into the keeping of another human being or submit the actions dictated by my conscience to their will.

When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a "necessary evil", it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

We don't know much about the human conscience, except that it is soluble in alcohol.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

The court is really the keeper of the conscience, and the conscience is the Constitution.

Living life with a clear conscience is the fruit of a repentant heart and new life through Jesus Christ.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

[Martin Luther] King subpoened the nation's conscience. He was killed for it.

Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

I want to make this perfectly clear: you can be sure that I will never be a yes-man except to my own conscience.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.