Conscience Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

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.