Conscience Quotes

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.

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.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

I did not join the resistance movement to kill people, to kill the nation. Look at me now. Am I a savage person? My conscience is clear.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

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

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

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

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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 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.

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

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

There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.