Conscience Quotes
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Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self-sovereignty; the right to an equal place, everywhere conceded--a place earned by personal merit, not an artificial attainment by inheritance, wealth, family and position.
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There is a Sunday conscience as well as a Sunday coat; and those who make religion a secondary concern put the coat and conscience carefully by to put on only once a week.
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Nullification is not a 'defense' recognized by law, but rather a mechanism that permits a jury, as community conscience, to disregard the strict requirements of law where it finds that those requirements cannot justly be applied in a particular case.
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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
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Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.
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Conscience is a thousand swords.
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The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
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We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
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A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.
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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.
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Here rests the soul of our nation - here also should be our conscience.
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Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.
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One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.
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If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.
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It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.
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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
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In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience.
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I sincerely believe that I have served a criminal. I led my soldiers in good conscience... but for a criminal government.
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God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
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God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.
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As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.
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In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment - independent will - that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
