Conscience Quotes
The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man.
I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.
I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.
Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.
What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.
You might want to think twice before you try to use a man's conscience against him. It may turn out he doesn't have one.
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.
What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?
I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.
Forget the laws. If the laws don't make sense, if they run contrary to your conscience, you have to disobey them.
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.
The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.
It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.
Even in the fiercest uproar of our stormy passions, conscience, though in her softest whispers, gives to the supremacy of rectitude the voice of an undying testimony.
Master, don't kill me. Let me live - punish me - torture me - but let me live. I can't face God with all those lives on my conscience, all that blood on my hands.
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .
A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.