Conscience Quotes
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Conscience is a thousand swords.
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
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It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown.
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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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The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.
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Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.
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The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
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Go by your own conscience.
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If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking.
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It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.
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I sat around in a hotel room in London for about a month, locked myself away, formed a little diary and experimented with voices - it was important to try to find a somewhat iconic voice and laugh. I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath - someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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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.
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Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.
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The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past.
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In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of Justice Department you have by what kind of civil rights division that you have.
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There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
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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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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.
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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
