Conscience Quotes

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

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

Conscience is a man's compass.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

Conscience is God present in man.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

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

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.

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

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

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

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.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

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

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

I believe you have to nurture your conscience.

I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.

It would be foolhardy to count on the conscience of the world.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Public opinion is a second conscience.

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism.

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

I have no bad conscience.

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

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

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Go by your own conscience.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

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.

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

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.