Conscience Quotes

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The conscience of the dying belies their life.

Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Conscience. That stuff can drive you nuts.

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

The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts to power and engages conscience.

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

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

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

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.