Conscience Quotes

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

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.

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

We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free.

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

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

As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

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

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.

There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

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

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.

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.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

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

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.

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

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.