Conscience Quotes
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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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..tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.
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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
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A quiet conscience makes one so serene.
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If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts.
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There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
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Everyone has his own conscience, and there should be no rules about how a conscience should function.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
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There can be no be no better instruction... than that every man who is to deal with his neighbor to follow these commandments. 'Whatsoever ye would that others should do unto you, do ye also unto them,' and 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' If these were always followed, then everything would instruct and arrange itself; then no law books nor courts nor judicial actions would be required. All things would quietly and simply be set to rights, for everyone's heart and conscience would guide them.
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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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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.
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The business of the philosopher is well done if he succeeds in raising genuine doubt.
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Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.
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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 doesn't sell because if you have it - you can't sell it, and if you have it - you won't sell it.
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There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.
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I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.
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Conscience is a thousand swords.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of 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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The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
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Go by your own conscience.
