Conscience Quotes
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The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
William E. Gladstone -
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.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
Morris Raphael Cohen -
Cooperation will save the future. And America should lead it. Every time humanity has been in danger of extinguishing itself, our consciousness and our conscience have led us to come together. That's the big issue of the 21st century.
Bill Clinton -
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
Isaac Watts -
Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Show me a man without regrets and I’ll show you a man without a conscience.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.
Walter J Chantry
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Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta -
The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.
Rufus Choate -
No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience.
Ernest Hemingway -
I cannot, in good conscience, allow money to be wasted on a failure.
Winston Groom -
I have no bad conscience.
Alois Brunner -
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.
Ernest Bevin
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca the Younger -
The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.
Nicholas Donabet Kristof -
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats -
Abortion kills twice. It kills the body of the baby and it kills the conscience of the mother. Abortion is profoundly anti-women. Three quarters of its victims are women: Half the babies and all the mothers.
Mother Teresa -
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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Charles Dickens -
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.
Izaak Walton -
There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.
Edward Thomson